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adobe house

n. a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses [syn: sod house, soddy]

Usage examples of "adobe house".

The roof had long gone off the adobe house, but the walls were still secure.

Duane rented a small adobe house on the outskirts of town and moved the family into it.

I could see the high-water mark still wet on the buildings, as high as my head, and here and there an adobe house sat askew.

Instead of ships with tall masts there was just a low adobe house, with lots of old saddles and pieces of rotting harness piled under a little shed at one corner.

Across the way, on the shaded porch that fronted an adobe house badly in need of patching, a little girl, maybe six or seven years old, was playing with a puppy, a joyful bundle of wriggling fur.

So when I saw an adobe house up ahead, I rode up to it and swung down.