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Definition of Newmarket

1. Noun. A long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century.

2. Noun. A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card.

Definition of Newmarket

1. n. A long, closely fitting cloak.

Definition of Newmarket

1. Noun. A long, close-fitting cloak. ¹

2. Noun. A card game in which players try to play their cards in a sequence selected by cards from a second deck. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Newmarket

1. [n -S]

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Literary usage of Newmarket

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New Hampshire Railroad Commissioners (1902)
"To the Supreme Court: Respectfully represents the Exeter & Newmarket Street Railway Company, a provisional street railway corporation, duly established ..."

2. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"Near Newmarket we cross a singular earthwork known as the Devil's Dyke. ... Newmarket is the headquarters of the Jockey Club and the metropolis of ..."

3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1885)
"And so, with an interval of gloom in the civil wars, things went merrily on at Newmarket. Under Charles the Second, the Court migrated en masse to the ..."

4. Annual Report by New Hampshire Railroad Commissioners (1908)
"LAND DAMAGE IN Newmarket. To the Board of Railroad Commissioners: Respectfully represents the Boston & Maine Railroad, a corporation established according ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1845)
"Wood Ditton is evidently a name associated with the dyke, implying, the wood on the ditch. The work is continued northward, across Newmarket Heath, ..."

6. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1908)
"ON appeal, by the Newmarket Railway Company, against a rate for the relief of ... [ 95 ] The case stated that, in the rate appealed against, the Newmarket ..."

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