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ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 210 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ") , a Spanish-American word for the sun-dried
clay
  used by the Indians for building in some of the
south
 -western states of the American
Union
 , this method having been imported in the 16th
century
  by Spaniards from
Mexico
 , Peru, &c. A distinction is made between the smaller " adobes," which are about the
size
  of
ordinary
  baked bricks, and the larger " adobines, " some of which are as much as from one to two yards
long
 .


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