mew
/ˈmjuː/ noun C1- A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
- A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
Plural mews
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Holmes’s knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary, and on this occasion he passed rapidly and with an assured step through a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known.
“A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel.
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