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 town in County Cork, Ireland.
  3. A townland in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
  4. A town in Ontario, Canada.
  5. An inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. [1]

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. NZ Topo Map
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