clapboard

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During the first movie, Frankel says, Blunt came in on the days she wasn’t working to watch her co-stars and even operate the clapboard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

These three-family clapboard sugar cubes, thrown up by the tens of thousands around the turn of the 20th century across all New England’s cities, are the backbone of Greater Boston’s working-class housing stock.

From Slate • Sep. 9, 2025

Momentary pictures emerge from the crackling cloud and then sink back — a girl walking, a simple clapboard building, a hand holding a teacup, a car careening over a steep embankment and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024

The Rev. Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and a storied history.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2023

The houses were starting to look familiar—big gray and white clapboard houses set far back on their lawns.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell