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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Daphnee Sylvestre and 2 months old baby is in her car in carrefour marotie’re 28 , needs help!
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2010
At the summit of the hill, at the carrefour of la Maison-Rouge, the road from Donchery to Vrigne-aux-Bois debouched into the Mezieres pike.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
Just ahead, around the bend in the path, lay the grass-grown carrefour where he had first seen Lorraine.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The chief carrefour there is at the junction of the Pollet, High Street and Smith Street; another is in the country, the Carrefour aux Lievres, the precise locality of which I cannot quite recall.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
From the carrefour Jack turned to the left straight into the heart of the forest.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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