adobe house

collocation in English

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adobe
noun[U]
uk
/əˈdəʊ.bi/us
/əˈdoʊ.bi/
a mixture of earth and straw made into bricks and dried in the sun, used to build houses in some parts of ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofadobeandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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By 1826 he had in addition to theadobehouse, a garden with fruit trees, considerable cattle and horses.
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Theadobehousehe built was said to be the first house in the area to have glass windows.
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They first constructed anadobehousethen enclosed it with a 150-foot square cedar post stockade.
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One research project is an inhabitedadobehousewith rational fenestration.
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Here was erected anadobehouseand corral.
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The main part of the hotel is remodeled from a 17th century colonialadobehouse.
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In the 19th century the cave was inhabited by a poor family who built a smalladobehousein the great opening.
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There they lived simply in a smalladobehouseamong like-minded free-spirits.
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At the entrance of anotheradobehouse, are remains of another mummy, badly damaged by vandals.
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They added a wood-frame second floor to the family's one-storyadobehouse.
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Swentzell lives in a solar-poweredadobehousethat she built herself.
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Rideau employed an architect and winemaker to transform anadobehouseinto a wine tasting centre, with bathroom and kitchen facilities.
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Theadobehousehas seven rooms.
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Anadobehousewas built with rational fenestration, small windows in the northern side and heat collecting concrete prisms in the windows of the south facing wall.
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The area is very rural with 558 housing units (2005), mostly adobe houses with tile roofs, with some of cinderblock.
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They lived in dugouts and adobe houses, but were forced out of the country in 1878.
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Also, old adobe houses in the town are still preserved, and are an attraction.
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The center of the town in a large plaza, which is surrounded by many old adobe houses with red tile roofs.
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Downtown the visitor can see many old adobe houses.
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After a flood in 1819 washed away most of the huts, more substantial adobe houses replaced them.
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