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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

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

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2023

At any rate, I felt invisible, creeping bent over toward that great gray clapboard house.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson




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