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carfax

/ ˈkɑːfæks /

noun

  1. a place where principal roads or streets intersect, esp a place in a town where four roads meet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

Those in front had now stopped also; and Master Carfax came ambling back to see what had occasioned the delay.

Without answering Carfax, he fitted an arrow to his bow, and sent speeding death to the trembling stag.

"One was to deal with Robin of Locksley," said Carfax, snarlingly, and without yielding his point.

Ford encouraged his foresters by word and gesture; and Carfax kept himself as far out of it as possible.

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