单词 | carfour |
释义 | † carfourn. Obsolete. A place where four ways meet, a ‘carfax’. (Formerly quite naturalized, but now treated only as French.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > cross-roads carfax1357 carfour1477 cross1546 cross-way?1556 quatervois?1575 four-way1598 four-crosswaya1645 crossing1695 four-went way(s1777 cross-road1812 cross-street1825 intersectiona1864 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 36 In all the quarefours of the Cyte. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxvii. 100 By the grete quarfours and by wayes. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) v. ii. sig. nn.ii In a quarefoure of a towne. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvii. iv. 628 Neere unto the carrefour or crosse waie [L. compitum] of Anagnia. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. xxxvi. 1005 In all quarrefours or crosse streets of the citie. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 59 Rome..containeth..265 crosse streets or carfours. 1652 J. Evelyn State of France 109 You walk the streets and publick Carfours. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. ⁋86. 572 Their Seat was in a Sort of Carfour at Chancery-Lane End. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. ii. 28 It [Glasgow] has a spacious Carrifour, where stands the Cross. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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