Adobe vs Mansion - What's the difference?
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An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
* (rfdate) O’Henry, Cabbages and Kings
* (rfdate) O’Henry, Roads of Destiny
* (rfdate) Star Wars script
* 26 May 2003 , Roger Angell, in The New Yorker ,
A house made of adobe brick.
* {{quote-news, 2007, March 11, Ralph Blumenthal, Prosecutor’s Ouster Shifts Political Order, New York Times
, passage=The snow-dusted mesas and million-dollar adobes look enchanting as ever
(senseid) A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
(UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
(obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
(obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
(historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
* Late 14th century: Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
(Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:
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* 2003 , The Economist , (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:
Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
As a verb adobe
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(wikipedia adobe)Noun
(en-noun)- Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.
- Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses.
- “Find me a nice, clean adobe wall,” says he, “and send Senor Rompiro up against it.”
- The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.
- The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.
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* mansioun (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In my Father's house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would have told you.
- These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansions keep.
- The many mansions in one east London house of God.
