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The building material, 'adobe' is made of mud mixed with straw (and other available materials such as leaves, grit, and so on) and formed into bricks which are dried, usually in the sun, before being used for building in the same way as any other bricks.

The dried bricks are formed into walls, as modern bricks are, using a wet mortar paste; in the case of adobe bricks they are usually fixed together with the unbaked adobe mixture.

The word is American-English, first recorded in 1739, from the Spanish adobe, which came into Spanish from Arabic, al-tob, or al-tub, 'the brick'; from Arabic it can be traced back to a Coptic word, tube, also meaning a brick.

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