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mews

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mews

Row of stables and coach houses with living quarters above, built behind houses, especially in 17th–18th-century London. Most have been converted into modernized dwellings. The term originally referred to the royal stables in London, built where the king's hawks once stayed at molting (“mew”) time.


mews Chiefly Brit
a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings


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the mocking-bird that mews for all the world like a cat?
I know you have bought him a velvet coat, and that he has taken a large, airy and commodious studio in Mews Lane, where you are to be found in a soft material on first and third Wednesdays.
I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden.
 
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