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carrefour

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car⋅re⋅four

  [kar-uh-foor, kar-uh-foor]
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–noun
1. a crossroads; road junction.
2. a public square, plaza; marketplace.
Origin:
1475–85; < F; earlier quarefour, MF quarrefour < LL quadrifurcum, neut. of quadrifurcus with four forks, equiv. to quadri- quadri- + -furcus -forked, adj. deriv. of furcus, furca fork
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car·re·four   (kār'ə-fŏŏr')   
n.  

  1. A crossroads.

  2. A public square; a plaza.


[French, from Old French carrefor, from Latin quadrifurcus, four-forked : quadri-, quadri- + furca, fork.]
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