adobe

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[edit] Etymology

From Spanish, from Arabic الطوب (aʈ-ʈūb), from Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe) (“brick”), from Egyptian ḏbt.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
adobe

Plural
usually uncountable; plural adobes

adobe (usually uncountable; plural adobes)

  1. See also noun adjunct
    An unburnt brick dried in the sun
    Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
  2. A house made of adobe brick
    • 2007 March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, “Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order”[1], New York Times:
      The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever [] .

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  • Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses. — O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
  • “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.” — O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
  • 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. — Star Wars script
  • 2003: 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. — Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, 26 May 2003

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  • IPA: /a.dɔb/

[edit] Noun

adobe m. (plural adobes)

  1. adobe
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