carrefour
Americannoun
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a crossroads; road junction.
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a public square, plaza; marketplace.
noun
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a rare word for crossroads
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a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
Etymology
Origin of carrefour
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
Example Sentences
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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.
From Project Gutenberg
At this moment the baying of the pack was again heard near the carrefour.
From Project Gutenberg
However, on the next day, the horse combat was appointed in the carrefour, by the pine-tree.
From Project Gutenberg
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