Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Étape

Étape , noun

[F. Compare Staple a mart.]

1.
A public storehouse.
2.
(Military) Supplies issued to troops on the march;
(Military) the place where troops on the march halt over night; also, by extension, the distance marched during a day.
3.
In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

Also: etape