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Street of houses formerly used as stables
Answer for the clue "Street of houses formerly used as stables ", 4 letters:
mews
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 )
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stables grouped around an open yard," 1630s, from Mewes , name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, built 1534 on the site of the former royal mews (attested from late 14c.), where the king's hawks were kept (see mew (n.2)). Extended by 1805 to "street ...
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.