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CREVASSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 432 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CREVASSE , a See also:

French word used in two senses. (1) In French See also:Switzerland, and thence universally in high See also:mountain regions, it designates a fissure in a See also:glacier caused by gigantic cracks in the See also:ice-See also:mass, sometimes of See also:great See also:depth, into which climbers frequently fall through a See also:light See also:bridge of See also:snow which conceals the crevasse. (2) Adopted from the French of See also:Louisiana, it signifies locally a wide crack or See also:breach in the See also:bank of a See also:canal or See also:river, and particularly of the " See also:levee " of the See also:Mississippi.

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