mews

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Etymology 1

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From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

Noun

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mews (plural mews or mewses)

  1. (British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
    • 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXIII:
      What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? / No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, / None out of it.
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106
      It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
    • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:
      It was here in the kitchen, in the passage
      In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place [] .
    • 1945 September and October, “The Origin of the Euston Hotel”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:
      It was further proposed that a space of ground near these establishments should be appropriated to a mews for the convenience of persons requiring post horses, and for the standing of horses and carriages at livery.
  2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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mews

  1. plural of mew

Etymology 3

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See mew.

Verb

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mews

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mew

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