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  • noun Plural form of stoup.

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Examples

  • A lot of her shows feature "stoups" where she throws everything with chicken stock, heats up tater tots, rubs garlic on breads, makes these weird salad dressings with fruit jams and calls it dinner. she routinely uses excessive amount of olive oil and adds way too much cheese to otherwise healthy ingredients.

    Rachel Ray - A Legend or a Hype? 2007

  • In England, during the Middle Ages, fonts called "stoups", or "holy water stones", consisted of a small niche somewhat resembling a piscina and containing a stone basin partly sunk in the wall, the niche being either under the porch or inside, but always near the entrance to the church.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • They believed they could cook "stoups" and "sammies" and saw themeselves as they watched her drop stuff and juggle pots, pans and knives, while doing it all in less than 30 minutes … while smiling, giggling and goofin 'around.

    Simplenomics Mike Sigers 2008

  • They pause at the stoups set about the entrance to pick up a cigarette or more.

    The United Church of Cigarettes Michael Seidel 2011

  • KingMe MincingRicky Set me the stoups of wine upon that table.

    The tragedy will not be twittered 2009

  • I will send a few stoups of wine to assist your carouse; but let it be over by sunset.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • Overturned pitchers, and black-jacks, and pewter stoups, and flagons still cumbered the large oaken table; glasses, those more perishable implements of conviviality, many of which had been voluntarily sacrificed by the guests in their enthusiastic pledges to favourite toasts, strewed the stone floor with their fragments.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • “Nay, the Balese received them not into the town,” replied the squire; “but I learned, by sure espial, that they afforded them means of quartering at Graffs-lust, which was furnished with many a fair gammon and pasty, to speak nought of flasks of Rhine wine, barrels of beer, and stoups of strong waters.”

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • His head throbbed, his pulse was feverish, and his cheek was pale, — symptoms of his having spent the last night, as was his usual custom, amid wine-stoups and flagons.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • Andrew referred every symptom of depravity or degeneracy which he remarked among his countrymen, more especially the inflammation of reckonings, the diminished size of pint-stoups, and other grievances, which he pointed out to me during our journey.

    Rob Roy 2005

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