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 card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck.

Noun

Newmarket (plural Newmarkets)

  1. 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.
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