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adobe brick

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adobe brick [ə′dō·bē ′brik]
(materials)
An earth or clay, straw brick of large but varying dimensions, roughly molded and sun-dried.


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Over the course of four years, Rowell's three sons - Richard, Homer and Robert - painstakingly handcrafted thousands of adobe bricks, finishing in 1942.
It was used as ranch before it was purchased in 1935 for $3,500 by Malcolm McKenzie, an aficionado of California history who spent years restoring it using 60 tons of handmade adobe brick he hauled in a pickup truck from the Dominguez home that was torn down in Chatsworth.
Then they began an exact replication, even pulling clay from the yard for adobe bricks and building a crooked central wall just as in the original, Watson said.
 
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