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Word entry · 4 letters

mews

Best crossword clue

"Stable yard lane"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /mjuːz/Part of speech nounSorted emswStarts with MEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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[…].

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