mews
noun
[ mjuːz ]
• a row or street of houses or flats that have been converted from stables or built to look like former stables.
• "an eighteenth-century mews"
Origin:
late Middle English: plural of mew2, 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.
mew
verb
• (of a cat or some kinds of bird) make a characteristic high-pitched crying noise.
• "cats mewing to be fed"
mew
noun
• the high-pitched crying noise of a cat or bird.
• "a kitten's mew"
Origin:
Middle English: imitative.
mew
noun
• a cage or building for trained hawks, especially while they are moulting.
mew
verb
• (of a trained hawk) moult.
• "the eyasses clung dully to their leashes as if they were mewing"
• confine (a trained hawk) to a cage or building while moulting.
• "Raoul orders his tent to be pitched and his hawks to be mewed"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French mue, from muer ‘to moult’, from Latin mutare ‘to change’.
