Obs. [STEW sb.2] A stews.

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1436.  Rolls of Parlt., IV. 511/1. Other strange persones … have set up Stywehouses, and houses of Bordell.

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1572.  R. T., Discourse, 49. Sixtus the fourth pope of that name builded stuehouses of both the kindes.

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1651.  J. F[reake], Agrippa’s Occ. Philos., 96. To hide them in a stew house.

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