[Vocabulary] mews

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What is the meaning of "mews" in:

"He is got a bird nested in a mews just around the corner (laughter)"

What does that mean?

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This sounds like a joke and a play on words:

He's got a bird (girl) nested (established, paying for her rent) in a mews (apartment) around the corner.
 

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A mews is a street of small houses/flats that were originally stables
 

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This sounds like a joke and a play on words:

He's got a bird (girl) nested (established, paying for her rent) in a mews (apartment) around the corner.


Can't thank you enough. That's exactly what suits my context!!!

but what do you mean by "paying for her rent"? I couldnt get that? :oops:

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but what do you mean by "paying for her rent"? I couldnt get that? :oops:

Thanks again.
He is a man of dubious morals who pays the rent on accommodation for a young lady so that he may visit her there in order to receive her gratitude in a way that the moral tone of this forum prevents me from describing in lurid, passionate, breathless, erotic detail.
 

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A mews is a street of small houses/flats that were originally stables

This must be a British term, I've never heard it. The only mews I know come from small cats.
 

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. . . the moral tone of this forum prevents me from describing in lurid, passionate, breathless, erotic detail.

Do go on, 5jj - I'm not sure I quite understand. . . .

Rover:oops:
 

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She is a "kept woman," a term to describe when a man pays for her rent, food, and clothing in exchange for companionship or sexual favors.
 

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So now you know, Rover.
 

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Oh heavens. Do I have to put on my stern moderator hat?

Boys! Stop it!

(Just E-MAIL me the prurient details.)
 
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