stoep
noun/stuːp/
Etymology Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep. Doublet of stoop.
1
A raised veranda in front of a house.
- To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1501:
- On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 89:
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- Why should the Police want us to spend nights hiding on other people's stoeps and beg in the streets and make a nuisance of ourselves?1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, published 1983, page 18:
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