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mews

/mjuːz/ noun C2
  1. A place where birds of prey are housed.

Plural mews

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“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.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 69 · B2
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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 16 · C1

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