corrie
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A deep, bowl-shaped hollow carved by glaciers into a mountainside — an amphitheater of rock, often holding a dark lochan at its floor. Corries are where snow lingered longest, where ice gnawed the mountain from the inside. The plural form in Scotland names some of the wildest places: the Corries of the Cairngorms.
Etymology
Scottish Gaelic: coire, cauldron, kettle. From Old Irish coire. The same feature is called a cirque in French, a cwm in Welsh.
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