adobe
noun/əˈdəʊbi/
/əˈdəʊbi/
[uncountable]- a mixture of mud and straw, dried in the sun and used as a building material
- adobe walls/houses/dwellings
- The floors were bare adobe and the walls painted blue.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAdobe is used before these nouns:- brick
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Spanish, from adobar ‘to plaster’, from Arabic aṭ-ṭūb, from al ‘the’ + ṭūb ‘bricks’.Definitions on the go
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