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New⋅mar⋅ket

[noo-mahr-kit, nyoo-]
–noun
1. a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NW of Toronto. 29,753.
2. a town in W Suffolk, in E England, E of Cambridge: horse races. 12,934.
3. (often lowercase) Also called Newmarket 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

noun
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 [syn: Michigan

Newmarket, NH (CDP, FIPS 52260) Location: 43.07538 N, 70.94061 W
Population (1990): 4917 (2400 housing units)
Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 03857

Newmarket

New"mar`ket\, n. [From Newmarket, England.] A long, closely fitting cloak.

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