mews

plural mewses

1. UKAn alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.

   It was here in the kitchen, in the passage In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…].

   1935, T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II

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   What penned them there, with all the plain to choose? No foot-print leading to that horrid mews, None out of it.

   1855, Robert Browning, chapter XXIII, in Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

   It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.

   1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, pages 110–111

   It was further proposed that a space of ground near these establishments should be appropriated to a mews for the convenience of persons requiring post horses, and for the standing of horses and carriages at livery.

   1945 September and October, “The Origin of the Euston Hotel”, in Railway Magazine, page 266

   [Pavilion Road is] a cobbled mews lined with butchers, cheesemongers, florists and cafés offering a village-like counterpoint to the grandeur of the main thoroughfare.

   2025 August 2, Cathy Hawker, “How bougie is your high street?”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2

2. falconryA place where birds of prey are housed.

1. pluralplural of mew

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of mew