/ mjuːz; NAmE / noun
( pl. mews ) ( BrE ) a short, narrow street with a row of stables (= buildings used to keep horses in) that have been made into small houses
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English : plural of mew a cage or building for training hawks , 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 cent.