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stoep S. Afr.|stuːp|
Also † stoop (cf. stoop n.3).
[Du., related to step n.1 and v.
In the U.S. the Du. word has been adopted with the anglicized spelling stoop.]
a. A raised platform or verandah running along the front and sometimes round the sides of a house of Dutch architecture.
1797A. Barnard Let. 10 July in S. Afr. a Century Ago (1901) 57 As for the young Dutchmen, I saw hardly any; the young ones prefer smoking their pipes on the stoep. 1798― Jrnl. 21 May in Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 457 Their stoop was covered with a set of large idle boors in their blue jackets, sons of the family—men who do hardly anything beside eating and smoking. 1804J. Barrow Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. ii. 104 He..parades the stoop, or raised platform before the door. 1805Gleanings in Afr. ii. 17 A stone terrace, extending the whole length of the house, and elevated a few feet above the level of the street, is the grand promenade of the family; this is called the Stoop. 1822W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Africa I. iii. 71 In front of each house, and of the same length, is a paved platform... This platform is called the Stoep (step). 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa I. 182 The ‘stoep’ is a narrow terrace raised outside most of the Dutch houses, where the owner may, towards evening, be generally seen smoking his pipe. 1883Olive Schreiner Afr. Farm ii. vi. (1889) 201 On the ‘stoep’ a group of men and boys were smoking. 1890Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Jan. 2/1 On the stoep—that terraced verandah which is the unfailing appendage of a Dutch house—the good wife stands to welcome us. 1939tr. E. N. Marais's My Friends the Baboons ix. 101 We could follow the whole tragedy step by step from the stoep of Mr. van Heerden's house. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo ii. 26 A wide stoep running round three sides in the manner of Karoo houses. 1980Listener 17 July 66/3 A farmer's wife in Natal..sitting..on the stoep.
b. Comb. stoep lantern, stoep plant; stoep-room, a small room having entrance and exit by the stoep only; stoepsitter, one who habitually sits idly on the stoep of his house.
1971Het Suid Western 14 May 9 Wrought iron porch or *stoep lanterns, wired in new condition—R5 each.
1961Argosy Mar. 20 She attended to her *stoep plants.
1880H. M. Prichard Friends & Foes in Transkei xvii. 122 Two very miniature ‘*stoep-rooms’, as they are called at the Cape. (Small rooms stolen out of each end of the verandah.)
1934C. R. Swart Africanderisms (typescript), *Stoepsitters,..a sluggard or lazy person; sometimes humorously applied by townsmen to farmers, who used to spend much of their time on the stoep, drinking their favourite beverage, coffee. 1948O. Walker Kaffirs are Lively 92 They don't work. They're stoep-sitters, coffee-tipplers and pipe⁓spitters. 1972Sunday Times 24 Sept. 19 Topical remarks, especially by the three ‘stoepsitters’, are made through the play. |