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mews

mews

1 8.9
A narrow city street with houses that used to be stables
  • noun
  • /mjuːz/
  • UK
translation icon : mews

Examples

  • Tonight, 8:00, 100 Humbolt Mews.

    A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)

  • 6 Bishops Mews, England.

    The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

  • Harvey Humphries of Humbolt Mews.

    A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)

  • Jack's limo pulls up outside this house on Washington Mews...

    Fiction book (2000)

  • So we just got to the Ross Nye Stables in Bathurst Mews which is just by Lancaster Gate.

  • The historic buildings along Belgrave Mews have been beautifully restored into modern apartments.

  • She chose to live in a charming flat on Wilton Mews, which was once a row of stables.

  • After a long day, he enjoyed a quiet stroll through the picturesque Baker Mews.

Surface Forms

mews singular
mews plural

Etymology

Mews comes from mew, a place where hawks were kept while they 'changed feathers'. Later the royal mews became stables, and today a mews is a small street or row of old stables that have often been turned into homes.