front stoop

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a veranda, usually roofed and often equipped with chairs, a couch, etc.

See: stoop (def. 1)

Quotations

1887

Trees should be . . . prohibited within 500 yards of the front stoop, and a potatoe patch should occupy the place of the lawn.

1897

A front stoop looking east fronted the house.