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NEWMARKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Newmarket mean? 

NEWMARKET (noun)
  The noun NEWMARKET has 2 senses:

1. a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th centuryplay

2. 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 cardplay

  Familiarity information: NEWMARKET used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NEWMARKET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("newmarket" is a kind of...):

coat (an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops

Hypernyms ("Newmarket" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)


 Context examples 


You remember how we posted to Newmarket before the races.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was attended at Newmarket for that purpose, and he point-blank refused to do it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tom had gone from London with a party of young men to Newmarket, where a neglected fall and a good deal of drinking had brought on a fever; and when the party broke up, being unable to move, had been left by himself at the house of one of these young men to the comforts of sickness and solitude, and the attendance only of servants.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Sir Charles Tregellis continued for some years to show his scarlet and gold at Newmarket, and his inimitable coats in St. James’s.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes it was as a sportsman that his reputation reached us, as when his Meteor beat the Duke of Queensberry’s Egham, at Newmarket, or when he brought Jim Belcher up from Bristol, and sprang him upon the London fancy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He claims to be the first gentleman of England, but the gentlemen of England have responded by blackballing his friends at their clubs, and by warning him off from Newmarket under suspicion of having tampered with a horse.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man he is talking to is Sir Charles Bunbury, of the Jockey Club, who had the Prince warned off the Heath at Newmarket on account of the in-and-out riding of Sam Chifney, his jockey.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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