Adobe
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /aˈdəʊ.bi/
- Rhymes: -əʊbi
Origin
From Spanish adobe, from Arabic الطوب (aá¹-á¹Å«b), from Coptic (Sahidic) ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tÅbe, "brick"), from Egyptian
G22-D58-X1:O39
á¸bt (djebe, djobe, "mud brick").
Full definition of adobe
Noun
adobe
(usually uncountable; plural adobes)- 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.â€
- 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.
- 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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