mews

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mews / myoōz/ • n. (pl. same) chiefly Brit. a row or street of houses or apartments that have been converted from stables or built to look like former stables. ∎  a group of stables, typically with rooms above, built around a yard or along an alley.

mews

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mews.
1. Court, street, or yard with stables, coach-houses, and accommodation for servants, at the rear of London town-houses.

2. Group of small terrace-houses, set close together in a court or cul-de-sac, not on a main street-frontage.

mews

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mews royal stables at Charing Cross, London XIV; stabling built round an open space XVII. pl. of MEW2.

Mews

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Mews

stable for horses, 1394; collection of hawks moulting, or hens and capons fattening. [From the cage for hawks when mewing or moulting, 1386.]

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