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English

Etymology

From Spanish, from Arabic {{Arab|طوب|الطوب}} (aʈ-ʈūb), from Coptic tube (“brick”).

Pronunciation

IPA: /a'dəʊ.bi/


Noun

  1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective as an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.


Translations

Quotations

  • 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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French

Pronunciation

IPA: /a.dɔb/

Noun

  1. adobe#English|adobe


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Adobe \A*do"be\ ([.a]*d[=o]"b[asl]), n. [Sp.]
1. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an
adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
[1913 Webster]

2. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. (Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid
regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in
containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet adobe
n 1: the clay from which adobe bricks are made
2: sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates [syn: adobe brick]
Moby Dictionary
ashlar , biscuit , bisque , bowl , brick , bricks and mortar , cement ,
ceramic ware , ceramics , china , clayey , clayish , clinker , concrete ,
covering materials , crock , crockery , earthy , enamelware ,
ferroconcrete , firebrick , flag , flagstone , flooring , glass , gumbo ,
jug , lath and plaster , loamy , marly , masonry , mortar , pavement ,
paving , paving material , plasters , porcelain , pot , pottery ,
prestressed concrete , refractory , roofage , roofing , siding , soily ,
stone , tile , tiling , urn , vase , walling


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