Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mews"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mews \Mews\, n. sing. & pl. [Prop. pl. of mew. See {Mew} a
cage.]
An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a
confined place. [Eng.]
Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a
mews at the back. --Dickens.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mews
n : (British) street lined with building that were originally
private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings;
"she lives in a Chelsea mews"
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