stoep

plural stoeps

1. A raised veranda in front of a house.

   On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.

   1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 89

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   To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.

   1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1501

   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?

   1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, published 1983, page 18