mews /mjuːz/
noun [plural] British English[
Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: mew 'place where hawks are kept' (14-20 centuries), from French mue, from muer 'to have the feathers fall out']
a small street or area surrounded by buildings in a city, where horses used to be kept, but where people now live
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