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stoep

/ stʊp /

noun

  1. a veranda
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stoep1

Afrikaans from Dutch
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Example Sentences

To our left, Vesuvius, with its three peaks, was smoking away as peacefully as a Hollander on his hooge stoep.

We had risen from table and I had gone out on to the stoep, “to see if the storm was passing off,” as I put it carelessly.

Reining in I strained my eyes upon it, but it showed no sign of life—no flutter of light dresses about the stoep or garden.

The family had just gone to bed, and Kendrew and I were sitting out on the stoep smoking a last pipe.

As they swung back the wooden gate which opened into the garden, the owner came out onto the stoep.

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