stoep
IPA: stˈoʊp
noun
- A raised veranda in front of a house.
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Examples of "stoep" in Sentences
- The clinic door opened and Zweigman stepped onto the stoep.
- The German threw the revolver off the stoep and into the garden.
- The Zulu constable forced the pale white man facedown onto the stoep.
- According to them it has the longest stoep veranda south of the Limpopo.
- These are very well equipped and all have an awesome view from the stoep area.
- An upturned enamel bowl and spilled carrots were scattered across the back stoep.
- 'stoep', under the trees in his garden, or high up on the mountain side, where he had his favourite nooks.
- Shabalala crept forward but stopped when the short man from the stoep appeared in the space between the storehouse and the clinic.
- In the modern houses the stoep is a shady, pillared, covered gallery, which in hot weather becomes the general living-room of the family.
- Every house had a porch or "stoep" flanked with benches, which were constantly occupied in the summer time; and every evening, in city and village alike, an incessant visiting was kept up from stoop to stoop.
- "stoep" before the door, under the shade of a great button-wood tree, but all visits of form and state were received with something of court ceremony in the best parlor, where Antony the Trumpeter officiated as high chamberlain.
- The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains.