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Adobe house   /ədˈoʊbi haʊs/   Listen
Adobe house

noun
1.
A house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses.  Synonyms: sod house, soddy.






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"Adobe house" Quotes from Famous Books



... with its surrounding acres, was my property, and had been before the fire which had destroyed the adobe house, one of the prettiest spots ...
— The Beautiful Eyes of Ysidria • Charles A. Gunnison

... street to the one-roomed adobe house on the edge of town that served as city headquarters for himself and Johnson. He unsaddled in the little corral; he brought a feed of corn for brown Awguan; he brought currycomb and brush and made glossy ...
— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... on a canvas and then had worked them with magical speed into a picture. There appeared a breadth of rolling country, covered with verdure, and in the midst of it the white walls and long, shadowed veranda of an adobe house. Freeman saw the vines clambering over the eaves and roof, the vases of earthenware suspended between the pillars and overflowing with flowers, the long windows, the steps descending into the garden. ...
— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne



Words linked to "Adobe house" :   house, soddy



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