noun
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brick
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After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages, one room followed by another.
house
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They live in adobe houses which they build and keep animals and grow mostly their own food.
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They lived in a dusty adobe house along Buckeye Road.
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Through a scattering of gray adobe houses , all identical, I would go to the house fronted with mulberry trees.
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After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages, one room followed by another.
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Ahead of me I saw the cluster of small adobe homes Induk had told me about, nestled into the hillside.
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Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe .
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Fired clay, such as pottery and baked mud-brick or adobe , is virtually indestructible if well fired.
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How prevalent was the use of adobe as a building material?
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Included on the tour will be a straw-bale guest house, a rammed-earth home and studio, and a 1919 adobe bungalow.
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Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.
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Mr. Mendez shrugged and both of them turned to the adobe .