carfax

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When I purchased my Honda early this year, I paid for a carfax report which allowed me to run any number of reports for one month period.

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  1. A place where four (or more) roads or streets meet: now used only as the name of such a place in Oxford, England. Then thei enbusshed hem a-gein a carfowgh of vj weyes. Merlin (ed. Wheatley), ii. 273.

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  1. from Middle English carfax, carphax, carfans, corruptions of carfoukes, also carfowgh, from Old French carrefourgs, carrefor, carrefour, quarrefour, French carrefour (whence also English carrefour) = Provencal carreforc, from Middle Latin quadrifurcus, having four forks, from Latin quatuor, = English four, + furca, later Anglo-Saxon forc, later English fork.
 

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