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English Dictionary: Mews by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mews
n
  1. street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings; "she lives in a Chelsea mews"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mews \Mews\, n. sing. & pl. [Prop. pl. of mew. See {Mew} a
      cage.]
      An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a
      confined place. [Eng.]
  
               Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a
               mews at the back.                                    --Dickens.
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