carfax
Meanings
noun
- A junction of four roads.
- The main intersection in a town.
name
- The junction of the High Sreet, St Aldate's, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street at the centre of Oxford.
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Etymology
From Middle English carfukes, an Anglicisation of Latin quadrifurcus (“four-pronged, four-forked”). Doublet of carfour.
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