adobe
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For decades, her adobe dwelling hosted waves of grandchildren and great-grandchildren as sons and daughters went back and forth, entrusting expanding broods to the matriarch.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025
A wealthy resident, Bernhard Hoffmann, not only bought and restored the historic adobe Casa de la Guerra downtown, Rech said, but bought property next to it and built a complex of shops called El Paseo.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2025
What residents who want to rebuild with materials like adobe are left with is, largely, confusion.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025
The massive walls had been plastered with red clay mud, but the weather had exposed the straw in the plaster; under a broken tin rain gutter, plaster was peeling away, exposing brown adobe bricks.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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