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

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

It emerged long enough for a photo shoot at their residence, then was whisked back to Rye’s white clapboard town hall and securely stashed in a filing cabinet.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

Tidy clapboard homes painted blue and grey looked abandoned, the windows darkened and doors latched.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

Our tavern was finished with shingles, but some of the richer people, like Mr. Heron, had white clapboard siding on their houses.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier