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
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 E. P. Robins
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 Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
The carrefour was like the regulation Open Place in spectacular dramas, where the incidents that occur always happen to bear on the lives of the adjoining residents.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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 Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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