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- noun Plural form of
stoep .
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Examples
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It was busy enough, for the Australian gold rush of a few years back, and the Mutiny, had set the port booming, but the town itself was a damned Dutch-looking place with its stoeps and stolid stucco houses, most of which are gone now, I believe, and the great church clock tower which looks as though it should have an Oom Paul beard round its face.
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"Is our work appreciated by the public at large or is it convenient for them to sit on their stoeps and criticise?"
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People were in their houses or on their stoeps, he said.
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People were in their houses or on their stoeps, he said.
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"One day I'll be having coffee on the farmer's stoeps, and if they want to throw me off they will be able to because they own the land," he said.
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It was busy enough, for the Australian gold rush of a few years back, and the Mutiny, had set the port booming, but the town itself was a damned Dutch-looking place with its stoeps and stolid stucco houses, most of which are gone now, I believe, and the great church clock tower which looks as though it should have an Oom Paul beard round its face.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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It was busy enough, for the Australian gold rush of a few years back, and the Mutiny, had set the port booming, but the town itself was a damned Dutch-looking place with its stoeps and stolid stucco houses, most of which are gone now, I believe, and the great church clock tower which looks as though it should have an Oom Paul beard round its face.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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On the stoeps of some of the houses, groups of women spin or weave cloth for the native sarong; some make deft use of the sewing machine of foreign commerce.
Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid
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Nothing now in the gracious building, with its shady stoeps and high, red roof, toned melodiously by age, to betoken battle, murder, and sudden death.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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And yet who can declare that the environment shall not in time exert its inevitable influence on the busy crowding English, and make them or their sons glad to sit upon their stoeps and smoke and look out upon the veldt with a quiet satisfaction which is unuttered and unutterable?
A Tramp's Notebook Morley Roberts 1899
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