ADOBE


Meaning of ADOBE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

brick

After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages, one room followed by another.

house

They live in adobe houses which they build and keep animals and grow mostly their own food.

They lived in a dusty adobe house along Buckeye Road.

Through a scattering of gray adobe houses , all identical, I would go to the house fronted with mulberry trees.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages, one room followed by another.

Ahead of me I saw the cluster of small adobe homes Induk had told me about, nestled into the hillside.

Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe .

Fired clay, such as pottery and baked mud-brick or adobe , is virtually indestructible if well fired.

How prevalent was the use of adobe as a building material?

Included on the tour will be a straw-bale guest house, a rammed-earth home and studio, and a 1919 adobe bungalow.

Its sister mission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.

Mr. Mendez shrugged and both of them turned to the adobe .

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