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mews
/mjuːz/
noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
above, horrid, near
MEWS + NOUN
harn, lot, none
PREP.
in, in, out
ADV.
somewhere
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
A place where birds of prey are housed.
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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.
Wiktionary02
It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
Wiktionary03
It was here in the kitchen, in the passage In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…].
Wiktionary04
My cat mews a lot.
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