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† ˈcarfour, carrefour Obs.
In 5 quare-, quarfour, 6 quare-, quarrefoure, 6–8 carfour, 6– carrefour, carri-.
[a. F. carrefour, in 13th c. quarrefour: see carfax.]
A place where four ways meet, a ‘carfax’. (Formerly quite naturalized, but now treated only as French.)
1477Caxton Jason 28 In alle the quarefours of the cyte. 1490― Eneydos xxvii. 100 By the grete quarfours and by wayes. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. ii. 362 In a quarefoure of a towne. 1600Holland Livy xxvii. iv. 628 Neere unto the carrefour or crosse waie [compitum] of Anagnia. Ibid. xxxviii. xxxvi. 1005 In all quarrefours or crosse streets of the citie. 1601― Pliny I. 59 Rome..containeth..265 crosse streets or carfours. 1652Evelyn State France Misc. (1805) 93 You walk the Streets and public Carfours. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 22 It [Glasgow] has a spacious carrifour, where stands the cross. a1734North Exam. iii. vii. ⁋86. 572 Their Seat was in a Sort of Carfour at Chancery-Lane End. |