Newmarket

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Newmarket

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

proper noun

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).
A hamlet in Clay Cross parish, North East Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3863).
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 north-west County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 3107).
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.

noun Newmarkets

countable A long, close-fitting cloak. 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.

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MLA

"Newmarket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/newmarket. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Newmarket. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/newmarket

Chicago

"Newmarket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/newmarket.

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@misc{newmarket_2026,
  title = {Newmarket},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/newmarket},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}