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newmarket

noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about newmarket at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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