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Webster 1913 Edition


Newmarket

New′marˊket

,
Noun.
[From
Newmarket
, England.]
A long, closely fitting cloak.

Definition 2024


Newmarket

Newmarket

English

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.