La Palabra del Día : la morada
la morada - (noun) dwelling, adobe
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Hoy vimos las moradas de cuevas en Colorado.
Today we saw the cave dwellings in Colorado.
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Iría a la morada de las musas solo para recuperar su inspiración.
He would go to the dwelling place of the muses only to regain his inspiration.
Aquí tenemos una morada morada.
Here is a purple dwelling.
¡La última morada!
The final resting place!
Ventas de morada familiares están mejorando.
Family home sales are improving.
No edifique su morada sobre la arena.
Do not build your home on sand..
La morada de los habitantes primeros australianos eran sólo la estructura simple hecho de la corteza.
The dwelling of Australians first inhabitants were only a simple structure made of bark.
I think our word-of-the-day definition has an error.
la morada - (noun) dwelling, adobe
That should be abode, not adobe, right???
La Cámara de Representantes de los EEUU se llama "la morada de la gente." Tras las recientes elecciones, el partido mayoritario en "la morada" ha cambiado. . Durante la transferencia de poder, la representante del partido saliente permaneció estoica mientras que el del partido entrante rompió a llorar.
The U.S. House of Representatives is called the people's house. As a result of recent elections, the majority party in the house has changed. During the transfer of power, the outgoing representative remained stoic while the new man wept.
Cada morada en esta ciudad tiene una única dirección.
Every dwelling in this city has a unique street address.
La morada de un hombre es su castillo.
A man's dwelling is his castle.
No Hispanic Community is complete in Southern Colorado or Northern New Mexico, unless present somewhere in the background is a seemingly deserted building that is, nonetheless, well cared for, but not overly so.
The structure is adobe. The windows, if not shuttered, are carefully painted or heavily curtained.
The vintage of the building is late 1800s or early 1900s, with thick adobe walls.
This is a "morada." This is a chapel of the Penitente or the ancient Hermandad, a religious-fraternal brotherhood in Hispanic society.
Ninguna hispana comunidad en el sur de Colorado o el norte de Nuevo México está completa ( 
good job here, Joyce ) a menos que posea algún edificio significativo de su pasado aparentemente abandonado, que aunque hasta cierto punto puede estar bien cuidado, pero no demasiado.
(In case you have used the translator for this, please don't do it more, because according to the Forum rules, I can't correct this kind of sentences This is not for you... but for everyone)
La estructura es de adobe. Las ventanas, si no cerradas, están cuidadosamente pintadas o cubiertas de cortinas en gran medida.
La construcción data de finales de 1800 o principios de 1900, y está constituída por gruesas paredes de adobe.
Esta es una morada. Se trata de una capilla de la Penitente o la antigua Hermandad, una hermandad religioso-fraternal en la sociedad hispana.
Vamos tío! Quedas arrestado por allanamiento de morada.
Le's go fella! Your under arrest for breaking and entering a dwelling house!
I am having trouble putting photos on my post even using photobucket. Can anyone help?
I edited, Sabor: the problem was that you don't paste the pic's link, but the web's link. You have to double click the picture for opening it, only once it's opened it shows the link that you have you upload here.
¡Cuán amables son tus moradas, oh Jehovah de los Ejércitos! Los Salmos 84:1
How lovely are your dwelling places, O Lord God of Hosts. Psalms 84:1
Hay muchas moradas hechas por los americanos nativos aquí en el sur de Colorado. La foto de abajo está aproxidamente a una hora de mi casa.
There are many adobe dwellings made by the native Americans here in Southern Colorado. The photo below is approximately 1 hour from my house.
The Manitou Cliff Dwellings is a rare historical treasure. Preserved under a protective red sandstone overhang, authentic Anasazi cliff dwellings, built more than 700 years ago, await you here. There are no “Do Not Touch” signs. You are free to touch and even go inside these fascinating architectural remnants of an American Indian culture that roamed the Four Corners area of the Southwest from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300.
