cluse

横谷（阿尔卑斯山）

发音

/kluz/

词形变化

cluses 复数 cluses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A defile or narrow gorge, especially one that cuts transversely through the rock of an otherwise continuous ridge.

    […] cut by the wadis of the Atlas which gave birth to very steep cluses (Lechhab 1991).

词源

In many cases, italicized as a borrowing of French cluse. In Early Modern texts, possibly a continuation of Middle English cluse, Old English clūse (“narrow pass”).

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