mews

Definitions


[mjuːz], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a row or street of houses or flats that have been converted from stables or built to look like former stables
(e.g: an eighteenth-century mews)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: plural of mew, originally referring to the royal stables on the site of the hawk mews at Charing Cross, London. The sense ‘converted dwellings’ dates from the early 19th century




definition by Oxford Dictionaries