carrefour

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

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noun

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

carrefour

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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

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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About 9 feet wide and 7 feet high, it shows a complicated street intersection, or carrefour, in Paris.

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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?

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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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Carrara marble carrel

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