Stage: nf (word from estappe, alteration of estaple; from Middle Dutch stapel “warehouse”).
The word “step” has several meanings:
I) Formerly: Market, place where merchants brought and sold their wares.
By extension: City of commerce, trading post.
Store, warehouse where food was stored for passing troops.
II) Modern meaning:
1. Stage: Place where a traveler stops before resuming his journey (also stopover); quartering place...
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