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Torrential movements of French toboggans (7)

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I believe the answer is:

deluges

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'torrential movements' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both types of natural phenomena as well as being plural nouns.
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'of french toboggans' is the wordplay.
'of french' becomes 'de' ('of' in French).
'toboggans' becomes 'luges' ('luge' can be a synonym of 'toboggan').
'de'+'luges'='DELUGES'

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(Other definitions for deluges that I've seen before include "Heavy downpours of rain" , "swamps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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