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Originally Posted by r18tdi
It's got a sort of private/civic pedestrian arcade thing cutting through it.
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That's the "mews". And if "mews" didn't date back to middle English it would be a candidate for worst new word of the year.
mews
/mjuːz/
noun (functioning as singular or pl) ( mainly Brit)
1. a yard or street lined by buildings originally used as stables but now often converted into dwellings
2. the buildings around a mews
3. (informal) an individual residence in a mews
Word Origin
C14: pl of mew ³, originally referring to royal stables built on the site of hawks' mews at Charing Cross in London
From the definition, seems pretty silly to call anything in new construction that was never a stables as a "mews".