adobe
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
adobe /əˈdəʊbi, əˈdəʊb/
▶noun a kind of clay used to make sun-dried bricks.
– origin C18: from Sp., from adobar ‘to plaster’, from Arab. aṭ-ṭūb, from al ‘the’ + ṭūb ‘bricks’.
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