stoep
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /stuːp/
stoep (plural stoeps)
- A raised veranda in front of a house.
- 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1501:
- To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.
- 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 89:
- On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.
- 1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, 1983, p. 18:
- Why should the Police want us to spend nights hiding on other people's stoeps and beg in the streets and make a nuisance of ourselves?
- 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier’, Norton 2005, p. 1501:
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