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

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

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

It was a part of town I had never seen, and worlds away from the part I knew—maple trees and clapboard storefronts, village green and courthouse clock.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt