Example sentences from the Web for mews

His most recent job in London was at the Mews of Mayfair, where the kitchen put out elegant renditions of modern British cooking.
Fresh Picks|Chris Rendell|October 4, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It was as we went out of the mews that we first saw the Goat.
Oswald Bastable and Others|Edith Nesbit
She lives down the Mews here to the right—name of Horlick, and as honest a woman as ever stood in shoe-leather.
The Queen of Hearts|Wilkie Collins
I 'eard it down some mews: some o' the pipers 'ave 'inted at it.
The Crime Doctor|Ernest William Hornung

Presently a man came out of the mews in a Scotch cap and a full beard.
Mary Marston|George MacDonald
Better this than dawdling about at the heels of a dandy, or sitting on a wheelbarrow in a mews!
Ravenshoe|Henry Kingsley

mews

/ (mjuːz) /

SEE SYNONYMS FOR mews ON THESAURUS.COM

noun (functioning as singular or plural) mainly British

a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings

the buildings around a mews

informal an individual residence in a mews

Word Origin for mews

C14: pl of mew ³, originally referring to royal stables built on the site of hawks' mews at Charing Cross in London

Words nearby mews

Mevacor, mevrou, mew, Mewar, mewl, mews, Mex., Mexicali, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican bamboo

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单词	mews
释义	Example sentences from the Web for mews His most recent job in London was at the Mews of Mayfair, where the kitchen put out elegant renditions of modern British cooking. Fresh Picks\|Chris Rendell\|October 4, 2011\|DAILY BEAST It was as we went out of the mews that we first saw the Goat. Oswald Bastable and Others\|Edith Nesbit She lives down the Mews here to the right—name of Horlick, and as honest a woman as ever stood in shoe-leather. The Queen of Hearts\|Wilkie Collins I 'eard it down some mews: some o' the pipers 'ave 'inted at it. The Crime Doctor\|Ernest William Hornung Presently a man came out of the mews in a Scotch cap and a full beard. Mary Marston\|George MacDonald Better this than dawdling about at the heels of a dandy, or sitting on a wheelbarrow in a mews! Ravenshoe\|Henry Kingsley mews / (mjuːz) / SEE SYNONYMS FOR mews ON THESAURUS.COM noun (functioning as singular or plural) mainly British a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings the buildings around a mews informal an individual residence in a mews Word Origin for mews C14: pl of mew ³, originally referring to royal stables built on the site of hawks' mews at Charing Cross in London Words nearby mews Mevacor, mevrou, mew, Mewar, mewl, mews, Mex., Mexicali, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican bamboo Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to mews fence, wall, bound, restrict, intern, wrap, circumscribe, encompass, imbue, veil, limit, pen, jail, circle, confine, impound, encircle, coop, blockade, hedge
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Example sentences from the Web for mews

mews

noun (functioning as singular or plural) mainly British

Word Origin for mews

Words nearby mews

Words related to mews