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 long intervals we would come to a keeper's lodge, standing quite alone in the middle of the forest, generally near a carrefour where several roads met.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
Presently, as he turned into a grass-grown carrefour, a mere waste of wild-flowers and tangled briers, he caught his ankle in a strand of ivy and fell headlong.
From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The carrefour, with the barricades that closed it in, was become an intrenched camp, guarded by the roaring flames that rose on every side and sent down showers of sparks.
From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.
If Sheridan seized and occupied this great carrefour, Lee's right was turned.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by Cooke, John Esten
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