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Definition of stoep in English: stoepnoun stuːpsto͞op South African A veranda in front of a house. 〈南非〉屋前游廊 Example sentencesExamples - In South Africa a stoep is a raised veranda on which you sit and watch the world go by.
- Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.
- The farmhouse started as a simple rectangular building with front stoep.
- For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
- A unique feature are the pillars on the front stoep: they are upside down cannon barrels, painted white.
OriginAfrikaans, from Dutch; related to step. Rhymesbloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoop, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop Definition of stoep in US English: stoepnounsto͞op South African A terraced porch in front of a house. 〈南非〉屋前游廊 Example sentencesExamples - The farmhouse started as a simple rectangular building with front stoep.
- A unique feature are the pillars on the front stoep: they are upside down cannon barrels, painted white.
- In South Africa a stoep is a raised veranda on which you sit and watch the world go by.
- Supported by timber trusses and arboreal columns, the restaurant's great monopitch roof recalls the traditional African stoep or veranda.
- For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves.
OriginAfrikaans, from Dutch; related to step. |