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carrefour

[ kar-uh-foor, kar-uh-foor ]

noun

  1. a crossroads; road junction.
  2. a public square, plaza; marketplace.


carrefour

/ ˈkærəˌfɔː /

noun

  1. a rare word for crossroads
  2. a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
“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 carrefour1

1475–85; < French; earlier quarefour, Middle French quarrefour < Late Latin quadrifurcum, neuter of quadrifurcus with four forks, equivalent to quadri- quadri- + -furcus -forked, adj. derivative of furcus, furca fork
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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.

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?

The grassy roads run beneath the embowering beeches straight from carrefour to carrefour.

At this moment the baying of the pack was again heard near the carrefour.

However, on the next day, the horse combat was appointed in the carrefour, by the pine-tree.

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