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Definition of Stoeps
1. stoep [n] - See also: stoep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoeps
Literary usage of Stoeps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Africa, Past and Present: An Account of Its History, Politics and by Violet Rosa Markham (1900)
"The plots of Africa have been hatched on the stoeps of Africa. One cannot help
regretting that in so many cases the old Dutch names of places have not been ..."
2. "Cape Times" Law Reports: A Record of Every Matter Disposed of in the by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Supreme Court (1897)
"Bree-street, and Wale- street there were 205 stoeps, and a good many had been
pulled down in that area. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"... with flat roofs and cornices and raised platforms called " stoeps " in front ;
but theso are rapidly giving place to edifices of more modern design. ..."
4. Colonial Days & Ways as Gathered from Family Papers by Helen Evertson Smith (1900)
"These were flanked by piazzas (or rather stoeps) on the north and south sides.
The wing's bedrooms were on the second floor, with windows in the long, ..."
5. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1851)
"They are very pleasant things those same stoeps. To walk there at night arm-
in-arm with a fair friend into whose eyes you look alternately with the ..."
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