Definitions
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- noun A raised
verandah in front of a house.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the modern houses the stoep is a shady, pillared, covered gallery, which in hot weather becomes the general living-room of the family.
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Every house had a porch or "stoep" flanked with benches, which were constantly occupied in the summer time; and every evening, in city and village alike, an incessant visiting was kept up from stoop to stoop.
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The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains.
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'stoep', under the trees in his garden, or high up on the mountain side, where he had his favourite nooks.
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"stoep" before the door, under the shade of a great button-wood tree, but all visits of form and state were received with something of court ceremony in the best parlor, where Antony the Trumpeter officiated as high chamberlain.
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Shabalala crept forward but stopped when the short man from the stoep appeared in the space between the storehouse and the clinic.
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The clinic door opened and Zweigman stepped onto the stoep.
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The German threw the revolver off the stoep and into the garden.
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The Zulu constable forced the pale white man facedown onto the stoep.
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An upturned enamel bowl and spilled carrots were scattered across the back stoep.
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