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Definition of Stoep
1. Noun. Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
Definition of Stoep
1. Noun. A raised verandah in front of a house. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stoep
1. an open porch [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoep
Literary usage of Stoep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young (1917)
"On the further side, where the governor had lived, it was whitewashed and homely,
for a deep stoep ran all the length of the house, ..."
2. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court (1905)
"He was sure that the poles were across the side stoep before the accident.
rross-examined by Mr. Schreiner: He was now living in Gape Town. ..."
3. A Subaltern's Letters to His Wife by Reginald Rankin (1901)
"South African houses would be nothing without their stoep. Though merely a narrow
verandah, it is the peg on which the house is hung ; the stoep is ..."
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