adobe
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
adobe (uncountable)
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
- Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
- 1903, O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
- “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
- 1904, O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
- Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
Star Wars script - The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
- 26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,
- The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
- The earth from which such bricks are made.
- A house made of adobe brick.
- mudbrick (definition 1)
- French: adobe
- German: Adobe, Lehmziegel
- Portuguese: adobe
- Russian: сама́н
- Spanish: adobe
- French: maison en adobes
- Spanish: casa de adobe
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