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...ilt their adobe structures with handfuls or basketfuls of adobe, until the Spanish introduced them to the making of bricks.) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spa ...be]}}, still with the meaning "mud brick." English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

...title = Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish| date = 2007}}</ref> ...o be an innovation of English, though they later appeared in French and in Spanish, probably due to English influence.<ref name=OED/>