crevasse

Definition

A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.

Etymology

From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.

Example Sentences

• "I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers."
• "[…] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled."