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Noun: Stopes
  1. Birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
    - Marie Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
Noun: stope  stowp
  1. (mining) a horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps

Type of: birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer

Encyclopedia: Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Stope, Velike Lašče