Newmarket

[ noo-mahr-kit, nyoo- ]

noun

1. a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto.
2. a town in W Suffolk, in E England, E of Cambridge: horse races.
3. (often lowercase) Also called Newmarket coat. a long, close-fitting coat worn in the 19th century as an overcoat by women and as a riding coat by men.
4. British. the card game Michigan.

Newmarket

¹

/ ˈnjuːˌmɑːkɪt /

noun

1. a town in SE England, in W Suffolk: a famous horse-racing centre since the reign of James I. Pop: 16 947 (2001)

newmarket

²

/ ˈnjuːˌmɑːkɪt /

noun

1. a double-breasted waisted coat with a full skirt worn, esp for riding, in the 19th century
2. a simple gambling card game

Example Sentences

All this time, both at Kensington and Newmarket, the Spanish question was the subject of constant and earnest discussion.

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Nowhere, however, does the peal seem to have been so great as on the Newmarket road.

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It was of him that the clerk said that ‘next Sunday there would be no Divine sarvice, as maaster was going to Newmarket.’

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Fox and other gamesters of the wild time supplemented the faro-bank by betting at Newmarket.

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He sometimes made excursions to Newmarket; but never engaged on the turf.

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