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carfour (s.xii1)

The form quarefur is a cross reference to the following entry:

carfour (s.xii1)

carfouk,  carfouke,  carfu,  carfuc,  carfuke;  carrefour;  qarfou,  qarfouke;  quarefor,  quarefur;  quarfouke,  quarfour,  quarfuk,  quarrefour,  quarrefur;  querefur;  querefus  (quartfur  TLL ii 27 quaterfuke,  quatrefuke  Man lang ANTS 73.13 ),
(pl. quarruges,  quatrefaukez)  
  FEW:  *quadrifurcum 2/ii,1400a Gdf: GdfC:  carrefour 8,432b TL: carrefor 2,50 DEAF: DMF:  carrefour  TLF:  carrefour  OED:  carfax n.  / carfour n.  MED:  carfouk n.  DMLBS:

s.

geog.crossroads
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Noz bestes en milliers, nient numbrables en noz quarruges (Latin: compitis)  Camb Ps 255.CXLIII.14
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Par rues e par quarefors En veissiez ester plusors Pur demander cument lur est  Brut WACE 10187
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiim )  l’ad fet fors sacher cum un mastin pullent E pendre as querefu[r]s  Horn (O) 5204
( MS: s.xiii )  compita: carfukes  TLL i 63
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  une carfour la ou touz les chemyns s’asemblent  Sz Med1 121
( 1421 )  Si donnons en mandement [...] que nosdites ordonnances facent publier en leurs audicion, carrefours, et auter lieus accoustumez a faire crys et proclamacions, tellement que nul n’en puisse raisonablement pretendre ignorance  Lett Rois 391
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  triviis: (O) carfucs  TLL ii 48
toponymCarfax (in Oxford)
( 1298 )  la ou le bayliff [...] fust en le Quarfuk pres de la eglise seynt Martin  Oxford Med Arch 55
( 1415; MS: s.xv1/4 )  une taverne joust le (l. lé) Quaterfukes  Man lang ANTS 73.13
( 1415-17; MS: s.xv1 )  se vous vuillez boire de vyne, j'envoieray a un taverne joust le quatrefaukez lou est un pipe debon vyne vermaile novelment au broche  Liber Donati (D) 22.137

See also:

quatre1  furche 
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