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adobe

[uh-doh-bee] / əˈdoʊ bi /
NOUN
sun-dried brick
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O’Keeffe was quite distinctive—and here at her best—in her paintings of adobe buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

They show O’Keeffe’s favored back view, and the beguilingly spare, almost biomorphic forms of its massive adobe buttresses, along with the subtle shadows, that make that completely understandable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025

On Monday, Bagnard emailed to say it looked like her family would be moving forward with adobe after all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

For this is much larger than our little adobe.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads




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