See also Italian stew leonard’s corned beef, Portuguese estufar. And when he came to the chamber thereas this lady was, the doors of iron unlocked and unbolted. And so Sir Launcelot went into the chamber that was as hot as any stew.

1681, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel And rak’d, for converts, even the court and stews. 1835, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews. 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, 2006, p. 1870, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Wordsworth Classics, 1998, p.