mews

• enPR: myo͞oz, IPA^(key): /mjuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz
• Homophone: muse

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross.

mews (plural mews or mewses)

1. (Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, 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 […] .

2. (falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.

• “mews” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Plural noun, see mew.

mews

1. plural of mew

See mew.

mews

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew

• MWEs, smew, wems