Crossword-Solution: STOEPS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

You pass neat villas, with pretty gardens and stoeps, gay with flowers, and at the doors of several, neat Malay girls are lounging.

They all stand on stoeps or raised terraces; they are always one-storied and thatched, and owe much of their effect to their gables, their many-paned, teak-framed windows, and their solid teak outside shutters.

The stoeps of houses and cottages were deserted of the bearded yeomanry, and the halls of the Government buildings resounded only with the tread of those who were not old or strong enough to bear arms.

The black-garbed Volksraad members, the officials, and the old retired farmers, who were wont to discuss politics on the stoeps of the capitol and the Transvaal Hotel were absent.

They are either white-washed or gaily painted, and in front of each of them are brick terraces called _stoeps_, where, in the summer, the inhabitants sit and talk to their acquaintances who may be passing.