clapboard

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Ms. Zambello’s production, adapted from the one at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2016, has Puritan costumes, gray clapboard walls, and simple furnishings that depict dwellings, a courtroom and a jail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

It’s a hip part of Brooklyn, where the centuries-old clapboard houses are interspersed with glassy boxes of recent vintage.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2025

Using her arms as a makeshift clapboard, a Sudanese woman in a black hijab and black-and-white caftan clapped her hands together, signaling the beginning of the rehearsal.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

That, at least, felt like home for the hundreds of thousands of Protestant middle Americans who migrated to L.A. and, in the land of Spanish missions, built themselves white clapboard New England-style steepled churches.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2023

The train rumbles over a bridge; the setting sun is feverishly beautiful, casting a striking pink glow on the facades of the clapboard houses that dot the water’s edge.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri