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carfax
/ ˈkɑːfæks /
noun
- a place where principal roads or streets intersect, esp a place in a town where four roads meet
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carfax1
C14: from Anglo-French carfuks, from Old French carrefures, from Latin quadrifurcus four-forked
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Example Sentences
We go by a patch of park and through a mediocre street, and find ourselves in the public square,—the Carfax of the city.
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Those in front had now stopped also; and Master Carfax came ambling back to see what had occasioned the delay.
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Without answering Carfax, he fitted an arrow to his bow, and sent speeding death to the trembling stag.
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"One was to deal with Robin of Locksley," said Carfax, snarlingly, and without yielding his point.
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Ford encouraged his foresters by word and gesture; and Carfax kept himself as far out of it as possible.
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