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n. - A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain.

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  • Those languages don't help, however, with her favorite word, "cwm," from a Welsh word for valley.
  • Do pop by to the Pobl y cwm bar if you get a chance later, Glyn.
  • Auditions for the chair of the new cwm taf trust who thought of that name?
  • She is also a committed socialist, and a chair for cwm cynon women's aid co-ordinating committee.
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