mewsn.

Brit.

/mjuːz/, U.S.

/mjuz/

Inflections: Plural unchanged, (irregular) mewses.

Forms: late Middle English muwes, late Middle English–1600s mewes, 1500s mewys, 1500s mowse, 1600s mewse, 1600s muse, 1600s muze, 1600s–1700s mues, 1600s– mews, 1700s meuse.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mew n.²

Etymology: Plural of mew n.², subsequently construed as singular in specific senses below.Use of the historically plural form as a singular dates from at least the mid 19th cent. (compare quot. 1853 at sense 2, and also the analogical plural form mewses in quot. 1871 at sense 2); earlier forms with final -e also suggest analysis as a singular form.

†1. The royal stables formerly at Charing Cross in London, so called because built on the site of the royal hawk mews. Obsolete.Distinguished from the Royal Mews (sense 2), near Buckingham Palace, where the sovereign's state coaches are now kept.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable > set of > royal or princely

mewsc1400

equerry1552

c1400 Westm. Chron. in J. R. Lumby Polychron. Ranulphi Higden (1886) IX. 104 Le Muwes apud Charryngg.

?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Fiii At the mewys at Charynge crosse.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxv^v The kynges stable at Charyng crosse otherwise called the Mowse.

1667 London Gaz. No. 132/4 A Bay brown Horse..taken out of the Muse on Thursday night.

1668 London Gaz. No. 272/4 There was stoln out of His Majesties Stables at the Mews, a Baye Mare.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 711 He was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse..to the Exchange in Cornhill.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 183 The other Officers, with their Troops [quarter] in Durham House, the Mues, Covent Garden [etc.].

1765 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 152/2 Eleven fine barbs arrived at the royal meuse, Charing-cross.

1820 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 16 June (1874) I. 30 There was some disturbance last night in consequence of the mob assembling round the King's mews.

2. Any set of stable buildings grouped round an open space, yard, or alley, and serving for the accommodation of horses, carriages, etc.; (later) such an area adapted for the use of other forms of transport, as motor vehicles. Also in plural: such buildings collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable > set of

stabling1481

stable room1585

mewsa1631

a1631 J. Donne Satires iv. 175 All whom the Mues, Baloune, Tennis, Dyet, or the stewes, Had all the morning held.

1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) ii. l. 77 The other Steed did stand In Persia's Mues.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. v. 26 Others..by sometimes frequenting the Muze, and other places, where Riders use to menage.

1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 20 I..made my escape into the Meuse, in which our stables stood.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vii. 61 Miss Tox's bedroom (which was at the back) commanded a vista of Mews.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 207/2 The mews of London..constitute a world of their own.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xiv. 134 We went..into Mr. Turveydrop's great room, which was built out into a mews at the back.

1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind iv. 45 My crossing's a long way off at the West End, and I had been indulgin' in door-steps and mewses.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xviii The large hotels in Liverpool have no mews attached to them.

1894 G. Moore Esther Waters 109 She..saw the black dot [sc. a sparrow] pass down a mews and disappear under the eaves.

1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 272 The mews were active, the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation.

1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall vi. 145 Chambers..kissed her in the darkness of the mews.

1959 P. H. Johnson Last Resort x. 49 The garage was in a mews behind the hotel.

1987 C. Tomalin Katherine Mansfield ii. 22 Katherine loved the bedroom, with its view over the lead roofs and the mews where the horses and the coachmen lived.

3. Such a set of buildings converted into accommodation for people; a row of new houses built in imitation of this; (also) a single dwelling within such a development. (Frequently in proper names.)

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings

rowc1248

street of houses (also shops)1577

town-row1610

terrace1769

mews1805

strip1939

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style

hall-house1467

longhouse1643

bungalow1676

single housea1684

tower-house1687

villa1755

box1773

cottage orné1774

villarette1792

mews1805

cottage1808

terrace house1817

casita1822

villa dwelling1833

villa residence1833

box-house1846

six-roomer1853

terrace1854

tembe1860

moat house1871

parlour house1871

row house1871

salt-box1876

trullo1898

townhouse1900

colonial1903

semi1912

Cape Cod1916

bungaloid1927

semi-detached1928

ranchette1938

solar house1946

rambler1947

rancher1950

ranch1951

tunnel-back1957

sidesplit1958

two-up-and-two-downer1958

two-up two-down1958

semi-det1960

A-frame1963

townhouse1965

tri-level1965

link house1968

split1970

dormer bungalow1977

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 146 Mrs. Cottis, of Great York Mews, Baker Street.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 305 Come down with me to Tom Corduroy's, in Castle Street Mews, and I'll show you such a bull-terrier.

1885 List of Subscribers, Brighton (South of Eng. Telephone Co.) 4 Nye, Sons & Silverthorne—Regency-mews.

1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 9 And the flat in the mews? How soon will that be ready for him?

1979 Arizona Daily Star 22 July h4/1 The news is the new mews: a row of attached houses with a name redolent with chic.

1988 L. Colwin Home Cooking iii. 22 It was..in Greenwich Village and looked out over a mews of shabby little houses.

Compounds

General attributive, as mews flat, mews-gate, mews house, mews keeper, etc.

ΚΠ

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. 552 Meuse keeper, James Lewis.

1776 in J. Bentham Fragment on Govt. (title page) Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate.

1818 W. Bray & W. Upcott in J. Evelyn Mem. I. 535 (note) In Castle-street, near the Mews gate.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 841/1 Elizabeth..lived in the inevitable mews flat.

1958 Observer 18 May 16/4 Those saucy, disreputable mews dwellings.

1964 D. Francis Nerve ii. 21 The big converted mews garage which served her as sitting-room, bedroom and rehearsal room.

1974 M. Babson Stalking Lamb xvii. 127 He intended to make the mews house his operational headquarters.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mews
释义	mewsn. Brit. /mjuːz/, U.S. /mjuz/ Inflections: Plural unchanged, (irregular) mewses. Forms: late Middle English muwes, late Middle English–1600s mewes, 1500s mewys, 1500s mowse, 1600s mewse, 1600s muse, 1600s muze, 1600s–1700s mues, 1600s– mews, 1700s meuse. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mew n.² Etymology: Plural of mew n.², subsequently construed as singular in specific senses below.Use of the historically plural form as a singular dates from at least the mid 19th cent. (compare quot. 1853 at sense 2, and also the analogical plural form mewses in quot. 1871 at sense 2); earlier forms with final -e also suggest analysis as a singular form. †1. The royal stables formerly at Charing Cross in London, so called because built on the site of the royal hawk mews. Obsolete.Distinguished from the Royal Mews (sense 2), near Buckingham Palace, where the sovereign's state coaches are now kept. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable > set of > royal or princely mewsc1400 equerry1552 c1400 Westm. Chron. in J. R. Lumby Polychron. Ranulphi Higden (1886) IX. 104 Le Muwes apud Charryngg. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. Fiii At the mewys at Charynge crosse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII* f. ccxxv^v The kynges stable at Charyng crosse otherwise called the Mowse. 1667 London Gaz. No. 132/4 A Bay brown Horse..taken out of the Muse on Thursday night. 1668 London Gaz. No. 272/4 There was stoln out of His Majesties Stables at the Mews, a Baye Mare. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 711 He was hurried away in a Coach from the Mewse..to the Exchange in Cornhill. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 183 The other Officers, with their Troops [quarter] in Durham House, the Mues, Covent Garden [etc.]. 1765 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 152/2 Eleven fine barbs arrived at the royal meuse, Charing-cross. 1820 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 16 June (1874) I. 30 There was some disturbance last night in consequence of the mob assembling round the King's mews. 2. Any set of stable buildings grouped round an open space, yard, or alley, and serving for the accommodation of horses, carriages, etc.; (later) such an area adapted for the use of other forms of transport, as motor vehicles. Also in plural: such buildings collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > stabling > stable > set of stabling1481 stable room1585 mewsa1631 a1631 J. Donne Satires iv. 175 All whom the Mues, Baloune, Tennis, Dyet, or the stewes, Had all the morning held. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies (1660) ii. l. 77 The other Steed did stand In Persia's Mues. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman i. v. 26 Others..by sometimes frequenting the Muze, and other places, where Riders use to menage. 1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times II. 20 I..made my escape into the Meuse, in which our stables stood. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vii. 61 Miss Tox's bedroom (which was at the back) commanded a vista of Mews. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 207/2 The mews of London..constitute a world of their own. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xiv. 134 We went..into Mr. Turveydrop's great room, which was built out into a mews at the back. 1871 G. MacDonald At Back of North Wind iv. 45 My crossing's a long way off at the West End, and I had been indulgin' in door-steps and mewses. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xviii The large hotels in Liverpool have no mews attached to them. 1894 G. Moore Esther Waters 109 She..saw the black dot [sc. a sparrow] pass down a mews and disappear under the eaves. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xx. 272 The mews were active, the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation. 1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall vi. 145 Chambers..kissed her in the darkness of the mews. 1959 P. H. Johnson Last Resort x. 49 The garage was in a mews behind the hotel. 1987 C. Tomalin Katherine Mansfield ii. 22 Katherine loved the bedroom, with its view over the lead roofs and the mews where the horses and the coachmen lived. 3. Such a set of buildings converted into accommodation for people; a row of new houses built in imitation of this; (also) a single dwelling within such a development. (Frequently in proper names.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > row or street of buildings rowc1248 street of houses (also shops)1577 town-row1610 terrace1769 mews1805 strip1939 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific shape or style hall-house1467 longhouse1643 bungalow1676 single housea1684 tower-house1687 villa1755 box1773 cottage orné1774 villarette1792 mews1805 cottage1808 terrace house1817 casita1822 villa dwelling1833 villa residence1833 box-house1846 six-roomer1853 terrace1854 tembe1860 moat house1871 parlour house1871 row house1871 salt-box1876 trullo1898 townhouse1900 colonial1903 semi1912 Cape Cod1916 bungaloid1927 semi-detached1928 ranchette1938 solar house1946 rambler1947 rancher1950 ranch1951 tunnel-back1957 sidesplit1958 two-up-and-two-downer1958 two-up two-down1958 semi-det1960 A-frame1963 townhouse1965 tri-level1965 link house1968 split1970 dormer bungalow1977 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 146 Mrs. Cottis, of Great York Mews, Baker Street. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 305 Come down with me to Tom Corduroy's, in Castle Street Mews, and I'll show you such a bull-terrier. 1885 List of Subscribers, Brighton (South of Eng. Telephone Co.) 4 Nye, Sons & Silverthorne—Regency-mews. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk i. 9 And the flat in the mews? How soon will that be ready for him? 1979 Arizona Daily Star 22 July h4/1 The news is the new mews: a row of attached houses with a name redolent with chic. 1988 L. Colwin Home Cooking iii. 22 It was..in Greenwich Village and looked out over a mews of shabby little houses. Compounds General attributive, as mews flat, mews-gate, mews house, mews keeper, etc. ΚΠ 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. 552 Meuse keeper, James Lewis. 1776 in J. Bentham Fragment on Govt. (title page) Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate. 1818 W. Bray & W. Upcott in J. Evelyn Mem. I. 535 (note) In Castle-street, near the Mews gate. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Nov. 841/1 Elizabeth..lived in the inevitable mews flat. 1958 Observer 18 May 16/4 Those saucy, disreputable mews dwellings. 1964 D. Francis Nerve ii. 21 The big converted mews garage which served her as sitting-room, bedroom and rehearsal room. 1974 M. Babson Stalking Lamb xvii. 127 He intended to make the mews house his operational headquarters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400
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