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stoa poikile
Greek · ancient
"the painted porch, a meeting place"
literally the painted porch, an Athenian colonnade where philosophers taught endurance and reason
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stoic
English · 1570s
"enduring hardship without complaint"
broadened from the philosophical school to anyone enduring hardship without complaint
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