adobe brick
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5.0
- noun
- /əˈdoʊbi brɪk/
:
ladrillo de adobe
- The adobe bricks had been smoothed over with mud and then whitewashed so it didn't have the dirt look of all the others.
- adobe bricks wall
Examples
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Many traditional homes in the desert are built using adobe brick because they keep the interior cool.
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The sun touched the horizon, throwing a reddish cast over the whitewashed adobe bricks of the clinic and the dust that hung in the air.
Fiction book (1997) -
You will have the chance to get your hands dirty and make your own adobe brick!
Blog text (17) -
Make it out of adobe brick, like the Indians.
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They learn how adobe bricks are made.
Fiction book (1991) -
The gaps between the adobe bricks provided views in every direction, like the peepholes in a castle wall.
Fiction book (1999) -
Cows grazed on it, and local workers had been extracting soil from the top of it for years to make adobe bricks.
Academic text (2006) -
Scientists, scanning their computers, estimate that 130,000,000 sun-dried adobe bricks went to build this temple to the sun god.
Fiction book (1991) -
They stopped where two Winnebago RVs and several other vehicles were clustered near a crumbling pile of adobe bricks.
Fiction book (1999) -
Sealed within the building's crumbling adobe brick walls were partially exposed murals that seemed to be made by the Lambeyeque culture, which lasted from the ninth to the eleventh century A.D.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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5.1
A brick made from earth, clay, sand, and straw dried in the sun to build houses in hot dry places
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2.7
A brick made from wet earth that gets hard and is used to build walls
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The noun adobe brick comes from a simple building method: people mixed clay and straw to make adobe, shaped it into a brick, and left it 'to dry in the sun' instead of making it hard with strong heat. That's why the word means a 'sun-dried' brick used in hot, dry places that helps keep houses cool.