Meaning of Adobe | Babel Free
əˈdəʊ.biDefinitions
Equivalents
Examples
“Many people in Texas and New Mexico live⟳ in adobe houses.”
““Find⟳ me a nice, clean⟳ adobe wall,” says he, “and send⟳ Senor Rompiro up against it.””
“Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base⟳ of the mean⟳ and monotonous adobe houses.”
“The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block⟳ house.”
“26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, The Sangre de Cristos came into view⟳ and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.”
“The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look⟳ enchanting as ever[…].”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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