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Definition of Adobe house
1. Noun. A house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adobe House
Literary usage of Adobe house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lew Wallace;: An Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"... 1847—Permission to go to the front—Saltillo—La Rinconada—Biscuits and onions—The
Kentucky lieutenant—The adobe house—The three days' siege. ..."
2. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"... 1847—Permission to go to the front—Saltillo—La Rinconada—Biscuits and onions—The
Kentucky lieutenant—The adobe house—The three days' siege. ..."
3. Our Country: West (1897)
"One might think that the adobe house would be a perishable structure. ...
The adobe house is the outcome of ages of experience in a climate of peculiar ..."
4. The Quarterly (1893)
"It fell into disuse, not because it was expensive or because it was unsuited to
the climate—an adobe house, well constructed, is one of the most comfortable ..."
5. Southern California Quarterly by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California (1898)
"It fell into disuse, not because it was expensive or becaus.e it was nn suited
to the climate—an adobe house, well constructed, is one of the most ..."
6. The World and Its People by Larkin Dunton (1891)
"May Heaven smile upon your errand," " May your patron saint pro- "" . .'-..'
.'''' -,:'%:* ' . fy :-J--±- -:.': ' f" AN adobe house. tect you," are ..."
7. Our American Neighbors by Fanny Eliza Coe, Larkin Dunton (1891)
"May Heaven smile upon your errand," " May your patron saint pro- AN adobe house.
tect you," are some of their pretty greetings to strangers on the road. ..."
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