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carfax

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carfax [ˈkɑːfæks]
n
a place where principal roads or streets intersect, esp a place in a town where four roads meet
[from Anglo-French carfuks, from Old French carrefures, from Latin quadrifurcus four-forked]


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The lovely creature raised domes and spires into the cloudless blue, and only the ganglion of vulgarity round Carfax showed how evanescent was the phantom, how faint its claim to represent England.
The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre Face, as the house is four sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of the compass.
 
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