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"text": "26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker,\nThe 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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{
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"roman": "tǔpī",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "nízhuān",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "泥砖"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhuānpī",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "砖坯"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
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"word": "adobe"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "steenklei"
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{
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "adobo"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "savitellis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "unburnt brick",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Adobe"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "plínthos",
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "vályogtégla"
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{
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"sense": "unburnt brick",
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "adobe",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "アドベ"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "plitar",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "плитар"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "ḱerpič",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "ќерпич"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "ḱerpič",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "nv",
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"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "bis"
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"roman": "saman",
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{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kerpiç",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "كرپیچ"
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "libn",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "لبن"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xešt",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "خشت"
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"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Adobe"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "glinobitka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adobe"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "tika"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "chirpici"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "văiugă"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "samán",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "adobe"
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{
"code": "twf",
"english": "the material",
"lang": "Taos",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "adùbiʼíne"
},
{
"code": "twf",
"english": "the individual bricks",
"lang": "Taos",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "ną̀xùʼúna"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "kerpiç"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "unburnt brick",
"word": "gạch sống"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the earth from which such bricks are made",
"word": "tiilisavi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the earth from which such bricks are made",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "argile"
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{
"code": "apw",
"lang": "Western Apache",
"sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
"word": "goshtłʼish bee kįh"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
"word": "土砖房"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
"word": "savitiilitalo"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maison en adobes"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a house made of adobe brick",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "casa de adobe"
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],
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"adobe"
],
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}
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