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stoop †
[< Am.E < Du. stoep a small porch with benches]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a porch or veranda, nowadays especially one at the back door, often unroofed.
Quotations
1792
Many of the houses have a balcony or piazza of wood, erected in front, covered, and floored with the same material. This, the inhabitants term a stoop.
1833
The Canadians call the verandahs "stoups."
1885
He won't take "no" for an answer when parting with her on the stoop and asks for "just one."
1959
. . . there are plenty of them [houses] which look pretty snug and homey, as though they might have a nice stoop on the back equipped with a comfortable rocker.
2n.
a platform, usually by the back door of a house, erected to enable a person to reach a clothes line.
Quotations
1957
It came up behind the buildings and took to moaning like a person in pain, and it followed him to the platform (stoop). . . .
1964
On clear washdays the women of the neighborhood came out onto little clothesline stoops in their husbands' old overcoats. . . .