Meaning of Mews | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
   British
2. A place where birds of prey are housed.

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

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

“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.”

“[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.”

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