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▪ I. mews|mjuːz|
Forms: 4 muwes, 4–7 mewes, 6 mewys, mowse, 7 mues, muze, muse, mewse, 8 meuse, 7– mews.
[Plural of mew n.2; now construed as sing. in the senses below.]
1. The royal stables at Charing Cross in London, so called because built on the site where the royal hawks were formerly mewed. Now Hist.
c1394J. Malverne Contn. Higden's Polychron. an. 1387 (Rolls) IX. 104 Le Muwes apud Charryngg. 1529Rastell Pastyme (1811) 280 At the Mewys, at Charynge Crosse. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 225 b, The kynges stable at Charyng crosse otherwise called the Mowse. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 132/4 A Bay brown Horse..taken out of the Muse on Thursday night. 1668Ibid. No. 272/4 There was stoln out of His Majesties Stables at the Mews, a Baye Mare. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xi. §204 The other Officers, with their Troops [quarter] in Durham House, the Mues, Covent Garden [etc.]. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 711 He was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse..to the Exchange in Cornhill. 1720Gay Trivia Poems II. 215 His treble voice resounds along the Meuse, And Whitehall echoes—Clean your Honour's shoes. 1765Chron. in Ann. Reg. 152/2 Eleven fine barbs arrived at the royal meuse, Charing-cross. 1820Greville Mem. 16 June (1874) I. 30 There was some disturbance last night in consequence of the mob assembling round the King's mews.
2. a. A set of stabling grouped round an open space, yard, or alley, and serving for the accommodation of carriage-horses and carriages.
a1631Donne Sat. iv. 175 All whom the Mues, Baloune, Tennis, Dyet, or the stewes, Had all the morning held. 1632Quarles Div. Fancies ii. l. (1660) 77 The other Steed did stand In Persia's Mues. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 26 Others..by sometimes frequenting the muze and other places where riders use to menage. 1785J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 20, I..made my escape into the Meuse, in which our stables stood. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xiv, We went..into Mr. Turveydrop's great room, which was built into a mews at the back. 1894G. Moore Esther Waters 109 She..saw the black dot [sc. a sparrow] pass down a mews and disappear under the eaves.
b. as pl.
1848Dickens Dombey vii, Miss Tox's bedroom (which was at the back) commanded a vista of Mews. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 207/2 The mews of London..constitute a world of their own. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xviii, The large hotels in Liverpool have no mews attached to them.
c. A mews converted into accommodation for people.
1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 146 Mrs. Cottis, of Great York Mews, Baker Street. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxiv. 305 Come down with me to Tom Corduroy's, in Castle Street Mews, and I'll show you such a bull-terrier. 1885List of Subscribers, Brighton (South of Eng. Telephone Co.) 4 Nye, Sons & Silverthorne—Regency-mews. 1954T. S. Eliot Confid. Clerk i. 9 And the flat in the mews? How soon will that be ready for him?
3. attrib.
1707E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. iii. (ed. 22) 552 Meuse keeper, James Lewis. 1817W. Bray Evelyn's Diary 23 Feb. an. 1684 note, In Castle-street, near the Mews gate. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 841/1 Elizabeth..lived in the inevitable mews flat. 1958Observer 18 May 16/4 Those saucy, disreputable mews dwellings. 1964D. Francis Nerve ii. 21 The big converted mews garage which served her as sitting-room, bedroom and rehearsal room. 1974M. Babson Stalking Lamb xvii. 127 He intended to make the mews house his operational headquarters.
Add:[2.] [c.] Also, a row of town houses similar to or built in the style of a mews.
1979Arizona Daily Star 22 July h4/1 The news is the new mews: a row of attached houses with a name redolent with chic. 1986Home Finder Nov. 36/1 The new development programme also includes a stylish new London mews in Fulham.
▪ II. mews(e
var. ff. meuse; obs. form of muse v. |