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cul-de-sac
A blind alley or dead end street.
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Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac.
His was the end house of a cul-de-sac, with the side wall of a huge brewery beyond.
A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.
An impasse.
(medicine, botany) A sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only.
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