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Topic: CONSTRUCTION

Date: 1700-1800
Language: Spanish
Origin: Arabic at-tub 'the brick', from Coptic tobe 'brick'

adobe

 noun
     
a‧do‧be
[uncountable]TBC earth and straw that are made into bricks for building houses
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