clapboard

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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

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

Momentary pictures emerge from the crackling cloud and then sink back — a girl walking, a simple clapboard building, a hand holding a teacup, a car careening over a steep embankment and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2024

The street side of the lot was fronted by a long clapboard building that stretched on and on.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu