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mewses

mewses is the plural of mews.

Meaning of mews

Noun

mews (plural mews or mewses)

  1. (UK) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
    • What penned them there, with all the plain to choose?
      No foot-print leading to that horrid mews,
      None out of it.1855, Robert Browning, chapter XXIII, in Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
  2. A place where birds of prey are housed.

Questions about mewses

What is mewses the plural of?
Mewses is the plural of mews.

Words near mewses in the dictionary

  1. mewnicorns
  2. MEWP
  3. MEWPs
  4. mews
  5. mews up
  6. mewses
  7. Mewshaw
  8. Mewuk
  9. Mewuks
  10. mex
  11. Mex.

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