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adobe

[uh-doh-bee] / əˈdoʊ bi /
NOUN
sun-dried brick
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Instead they encountered Hawikku, an adobe pueblo in what is now western New Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

For decades, her adobe dwelling hosted waves of grandchildren and great-grandchildren as sons and daughters went back and forth, entrusting expanding broods to the matriarch.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

On Monday, Bagnard emailed to say it looked like her family would be moving forward with adobe after all.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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