Newmarket

English

Etymology

The cloak and card game are named after the English town.

Proper noun

Newmarket

1. A market town in Suffolk, England, with a famous racecourse.
2. A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863).
3. A hamlet in Nailsworth parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8399).
4. A settlement just north of Stornoway, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4235).
5. A town in County Cork, Ireland.
6. A townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
7. A town in Ontario, Canada.
8. A ghost town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
9. A town and census-designated place therein, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
10. A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, north-west of the city centre.
11. An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

Noun

Newmarket (countable and uncountable, plural Newmarkets)

1. (countable) A long, close-fitting cloak.
   • 1864, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar, volume 11, page 484:

     They delight in blue frock-coats and grass-green Newmarkets, and white hats with mourning-bands.

2. (uncountable) A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck.

References

• List of townlands of County Kilkenny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia