Mews

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Mews house

A mews is a row or courtyard of stables and carriage houses with living spaces above them, built behind large city houses. The word mews comes from the Royal Mews in London, England.[1][2][3]

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  1. Samuel Weller Singer, ed., The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, vol. III (Chiswick: Charles Whittinghame, College House, 1826), p.357, fn. 13
  2. Ibid. p. 357
  3. See mew up at Shakespeare's Words website. Accessed 26 March 2017