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clapboard

[klab-erd, klap-bawrd, ‑-bohrd] / ˈklæb ərd, ˈklæpˌbɔrd, ‑ˌboʊrd /


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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

There are clapboard houses, a main drag with businesses bearing charming vintage patina and lampposts bearing flags of the town's military veterans.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2025

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

The downtown flattened out to weedy lots strewn between plain brick and wooden clapboard buildings.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu




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