"cluse" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1876, Elisée Reclus, The Earth and Its Inhabitants: France and Switzerland, page 150:",
          "text": "[...] others are bounded by the steep walls of the cluses, these being the most picturesque; others, again, occupy the combes referred to above.",
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          "ref": "1892, Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, page 402:",
          "text": "Penck states that many a cluse in the Jura may have been formed by subterranean streams widening their channels until the covering broke down and their subterranean valleys became exposed[…]",
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          "ref": "1953, O. D. von Engeln, Geomorphology: Systematic and Regional, page 324:",
          "text": "[…] narrow cluses still exist. The distinctive nature of the geomorphic forms of the Jura is indicated by the fact that each such item is identified locally by a particular term.",
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          "ref": "2024, Kholoud Kahime, Mohamed El Yamani, Stéphane Pouffary, Climate Change Effects and Sustainability Needs, page 83",
          "text": "[…] cut by the wadis of the Atlas which gave birth to very steep cluses (Lechhab 1991)."
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