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[edit]Etymology
[edit]The cloak and card game are named after the English town.
Proper noun
[edit]Newmarket
- A market town in Suffolk, England, with a famous racecourse.
- A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863). [1]
- A hamlet in Nailsworth parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8399).
- A settlement just north of Stornoway, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB4235).
- A town in County Cork, Ireland.
- A townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
- A town in Ontario, Canada.
- A ghost town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.
- A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, north-west of the city centre.
- An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. [2]
Noun
[edit]Newmarket (countable and uncountable, plural Newmarkets)
- (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.
- (uncountable) A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck.
References
[edit]List of townlands of County Kilkenny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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