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A mews is a small street or yard in a city, almost always in Britain, where horses and carriages used to be kept. The buildings were stables. Later people turned those stables into houses, so a mews today is often a quiet row of homes, tucked behind a bigger street. You still see it on London maps: something Mews. Though actually, it looks like a plural because of the -s, but you can say “a mews” for one such street. Americans would more often say alley. It is not a cat sound, even though is how a cat cries.
舊馬廄改建的住宅小巷（英國用語，倫敦街名常見；不是貓叫）
組成From Mewes, the old name of the royal stables at Charing Cross in London. That name was the plural of mew, a cage where people kept falcons (hunting birds) while the birds changed their feathers.
同家族的字
- mewthe older word for a falcon cage — the royal stables were named after those cages, not after a cat’s cry
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mewsnoun詞源 1/mjuːz/
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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.
- It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
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falconryhobbieshuntingA place where birds of prey are housed.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。