Crossword clues for carrefour
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "place where four ways meet," from Old French carrefor (13c., quarrefour), from Latin quadrifurcus "four-forked," from quatuor "four" (see four) + furca "fork" (see fork (n.)). "Formerly quite naturalized, but now treated only as French" [OED]. Englished variant carfax is from Middle English carfourkes.
WordNet
n. a junction where one street or road crosses another [syn: intersection, crossroad, crossway, crossing]
Wikipedia
Carrefour S.A. is a French multinational retailer headquartered in Boulogne Billancourt, France, in the Hauts-de-Seine Department near Paris.
It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world (with close to 1,600 hypermarkets at the end of 2015), the fourth largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue (after Walmart, Tesco and Costco), and the second in profit (after Walmart).
Carrefour operates in more than 30 countries, in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
Carrefour means "crossroads" and "public square" in French. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.
Carrefour is a French word meaning road intersection.
Carrefour may also refer to:
- Carrefour, an international supermarket chain headquartered in France
- Carrefour Express, a supermarket chain owned by the Carrefour Group operating in several countries
- Carrefour Laval, a Canadian super regional mall located in Laval, QC, Canada
- Carrefour, Ouest, a commune of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
- Carrefour de l'Estrie, a Canadian mall located in Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
- Mait' Carrefour, in vodou, a loa in charge of crossroads
- Carrefour Pleyel (Paris Métro), train station
- École du Carrefour, a Canadian high school
Usage examples of "carrefour".
They were at the lower end of the inclosure, which was divided almost in two by a broader pathway leading from the house to the centre of the garden, where a fountain of Moorish marble formed a sort of carrefour, from which the narrower pathways diverged in all directions.
Andre des Arts, the barricade of the Rue du Temple, the barricade of the Carrefour Phelippeaux defended by twenty young men who have all been killed.
He took a cab not far from the Carrefour de l'Observatoire, and in a low tone told the driver the number of the house in the Rue de Provence, which had proved so fatal to him.
No lo he llamado ni le ruego que se demore: es el extranjero, el judío que acecha en el oscuro fondo de mi relato como acecha y acechará, si una legislación prudente no lo fulmina, en todos los carrefours de la Historia.
The Mait' Carrefour was surprisingly clean, but the crew did not go in for polishing the brightwork.
This ingenuous little soldier, yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp-knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors, -- take both of them, breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of them imagine that they are fighting for their country.
After having vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from the Rue Traversiere-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means of the branch of the Arbalete, after having built the Saint-Georges sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died.