mews
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.
Noun
mews (plural mews or mewses)
- (British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
- 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section 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 […] .
- 1945 September and October, “The Origin of the Euston Hotel”, in Railway Magazine, page 266:
- 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.
- (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
Translations
alley where there are stables; narrow passage; confined place
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place where birds of prey are housed
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “mews”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Etymology 2
Plural noun, see mew.
Noun
mews
Etymology 3
See mew.
Verb
mews
- third-person singular simple present indicative of mew