mud that is dried in the sun, mixed with straw and used as a building material (建筑用)黏土;黏土坯 adobe walls/houses/dwellings 土坯墙/房屋/住所 The floors were bare adobe and the walls painted blue. 地板是裸露的土坯,墙壁漆成蓝色。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAdobe is used before these nouns:- brick
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Spanish, from adobar ‘to plaster’, from Arabic aṭ-ṭūb, from al ‘the’ + ṭūb ‘bricks’.