A mews is a row of former stables converted into houses. A mews house, live in a mews, a cobbled mews.
London is full of them, tucked behind the grand streets whose horses they once held, and they are now among the most expensive addresses in the city. The word is singular despite the s, so one mews and several mews.
1nounmewsA row of former stables converted into houses.
“Their little house is in a cobbled mews, tucked away from the busy main road.”
mews is a street.
From the Mewes, the royal stables at Charing Cross, named from mew, a cage where hawks were kept while moulting.
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From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, which is the plural of mew (“falcon cage”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA