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Is a noisy kitty
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mews
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Word definitions for mews in dictionaries
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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cat miaows/mews (= makes a small noise ) ▪ The cat was miaowing outside the door. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Back in the mews , in the deepest shadow, something cowered. ▪ But they might visit him later back at the mews ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.