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clapboard

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


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A historic church dons a "Go Knicks!" banner, while bars' clapboard signs advertise the game.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

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

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

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

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


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