mews

Definition

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

Etymology

From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, which is the plural of mew (“falcon cage”).

Example Sentences

• "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[…]."