Carfax

See also: carfax

English

Etymology

From carfax (“a junction of four roads; the main intersection in a town”), from Middle English carfukes, an Anglicisation of Latin quadrifurcus (“four-pronged, four-forked”).

Proper noun

Carfax

  1. (Oxford City) The junction of the High Sreet, St Aldate's, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street at the centre of Oxford.
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