Newmarket

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Newmarket

  1. A market town and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in Forest Heath district, with a famous racecourse (OS grid ref TL6463). [1]
  2. A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863). [2]
  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 north-west County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 3107).
  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. [3]

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

  1. ^ Parish map (Suffolk)
  2. ^ OS: Derbyshire
  3. ^ NZ Topo Map
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