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carrefour
[ kar-uh-foor, kar-uh-foor ]
noun
- a crossroads; road junction.
- a public square, plaza; marketplace.
carrefour
/ ˈkærəˌfɔː /
noun
- a rare word for crossroads
- a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carrefour1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of carrefour1
C15: from Old French quarrefour, ultimately from Latin quadrifurcus having four forks
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Example Sentences
About 9 feet wide and 7 feet high, it shows a complicated street intersection, or carrefour, in Paris.
From Washington Post
Is it not the French carrefour, a name applied to more than one place in Guernsey, though not, I believe, necessarily to a spot where four ways meet?
From Project Gutenberg
The grassy roads run beneath the embowering beeches straight from carrefour to carrefour.
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At this moment the baying of the pack was again heard near the carrefour.
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However, on the next day, the horse combat was appointed in the carrefour, by the pine-tree.
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