Adobes

Word ADOBES
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Definitions and meanings of "Adobes"

What do we mean by adobes?

An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

The earth from which such bricks are made.

A house made of adobe brick.

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The word "adobes" in example sentences

We're buying our adobes from a local family, they make them out of the earth of their ejiedo. ❋ Unknown (2003)

These bricks, dried in the sun, were called adobes, and were plastered together and made smooth by a mortar of the same clay. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)

The adobes were the native California habitations. ❋ Charles Warren Stoddard (1876)

California, are of one story, built of adobes, that is, clay made into large bricks, about a foot and a half square, and three or four inches thick, and hardened in the sun. ❋ Richard Henry Dana (1848)

These sun-dried bricks, or "adobes," are still made, as of old, on the banks of the Nile by the following method: -- A shallow pit or bed is prepared, into which are thrown the mud, chopped straw and water in suitable proportions, and the whole mass is tramped on until it is thoroughly mixed and of the proper consistence. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _enceinte_ spoken of is a mere structure of "adobes," large sun-baked blocks of mud and straw -- in short, the bricks of the ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

In this area there are no commercial manufacturers of natural adobes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So if you want old school from the ground up you may have to hire and train a crew to make your own adobes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The handsome, brilliantly-handled austerity of late German Gothic comes to mind, as does the simple adobes of the Southwest and the geometric neo-Byzantine of Otto Wagner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eventually, a few of his paintings that he had painted of the coast of California and included palm trees and commercial fishing boats, "which could be from the area," sold in Hilton Head, "but no adobes." ❋ Daniel Grant (2011)

In Tibet, mountains are often considered the adobes of deities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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