mews

UK /mjuːz/ US /mjuːz/

noun 2

Definitions

noun

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

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.

A place where birds of prey are housed.

ADJ.

above, horrid, near

MEWS + NOUN

harn, lot, none

PREP.

in, in, out

ADV.

somewhere

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

My cat mews a lot.

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