• Adobe

    Pronunciation

    • RP IPA: /aˈdəʊ.bi/
    • Rhymes: -əʊbi

    Origin

    From Spanish adobe, from Arabic الطوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Coptic (Sahidic) ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, "brick"), from Egyptian

    G22-D58-X1:O39

    ḏbt (djebe, djobe, "mud brick").

    Full definition of adobe

    Noun

    adobe

    (usually uncountable; plural adobes)
    1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
      • unknown date O’Henry, Cabbages and KingsStone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
      • unknown date O’Henry, Roads of Destiny“Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
      • unknown date Star Wars scriptThe 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.
    2. A house made of adobe brick.
      • The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever, but the political landscape here has shifted sharply since the Justice Department ousted a onetime Republican darling as United States attorney in New Mexico after party loyalists complained that he was not tough enough on crooked Democrats ...
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