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Goddess heard in place to stable horses
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mews
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mews \Mews\, n. sing. & pl. [Prop. pl. of mew. See Mew a cage.] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a mews at the back. --Dickens.
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Mews is a primarily British term formerly describing a row of stables , usually with carriage houses below and living quarters above, built around a paved yard or court, or along a street, behind large city houses, such as those of London, during the 17th ...
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Etymology 1 n. (context British English) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. Etymology 2 n. (plural of mew English) Etymology 3 vb. (en-third-person singular of: mew )
Usage examples of mews.
Then the king became impatient for there were other things to think about: there was just time to go to the mews to inspect one of his favorite gerfalcons, who was ailing, before he had to receive an emissary from Burgundy.
He does not mean to return to Marchant Mews, but curiosity draws him once he is close to the town centre.
Jeremy tries to imagine his students caring about the fate of Marchant Mews, even with the added inducement of a heritage centre.
The moral majority is alive and well and worrying about Marchant Mews.
Surveying his Marchant Mews empire, Jeremy has to admit that the chances of everything being finished in time are minimal.
Never were so many braying, upper-class accents heard in Marchant Mews.
At such moments he wishes that Alf had never introduced him to Marchant Mews.