What is "stoups"

Usage examples of "stoups".

Near the holy water stoups peasant women, in scarlet petticoats and laced bodices, sat upon the ground as immovable as domestic animals, whilst young lads, standing up behind them, stared out from wide-open eyes and twirled their hats round and round on their fingers, and all these sorrowful countenances seemed centred irremovably on one and the same thought, at once sweet and sorrowful.

Often she dreamed of water since the stoups had run dry, for all their austere husbandry, and left them only a dwindling drop of wine to keep off thirst.

After the Balayar girl finished giggling with the Aggitj and brought them stoups of Tech's homebrew, Skeen looked round at the unsmiling faces.

Enviously his eyes scanned the delicacies placed before the customers: fragrant stoups of wine, mounds of mashed fruit stuck with silver spoons, crisp sheets of the moon-bark that only this city's enchanters knew how to conjure across the freezing gulf of space without spoiling.