Gyre
Definition: a circular or spiral movement pattern
It comes from the Latin word for “circle.”
Why I Looked It Up
I found it in the Yeats poem “The Second Coming.”
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer…
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