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- noun A
brick made frommud orclay mixed withstraw and dried in the sun rather than being fired
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Examples
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Because the buildings are made of adobe mudbrick they are more vulnerable to quakes.
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The church is on the site of an old mudbrick ( "adobe") building and was rebuilt in 1957.
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She settled into a mudbrick house on the island's picturesque east coast and bought 100 hens from an industrial farm to roam the grounds.
Animal Magnetism 2010
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In many niches, large hands and feet peeked out, the rest of the bodies still obscured under mudbrick.
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Because the buildings are mudbrick and schist, a wholesale relocation isn't possible.
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The church is on the site of an old mudbrick ( "adobe") building and was rebuilt in 1957.
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Use of mud-mortar has appeared on several upper faces of rubble wall foundation stones, and a small interior wall of preserved mudbrick (30 cm. wide) has also been discovered intact.
The Potters’ Quarter: Report 1 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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Beyond the Grand Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the kasbahs are made from a reddish brown mudbrick, what we would call adobe in North America.
Archive 2009-01-01 James Gurney 2009
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Beyond the Grand Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the kasbahs are made from a reddish brown mudbrick, what we would call adobe in North America.
Mr. Moha of Aït Benhaddou James Gurney 2009
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The Afghans seem so weak -- an impoverished people living in mudbrick houses making a hardscrabble living; shepherds, farmers and nomads answering to feudal lords ruling tiny villages connected by dirt tracks over rocky mountain passes.
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