mews
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
mews (plural mews)
- (British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXIII:
- What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? / No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, / None out of it.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106
- It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
- 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:
- It was here in the kitchen, in the passage
- In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place […] .
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXIII:
- (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
- plural form of mew
- third-person singular form of mew
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