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

Using her arms as a makeshift clapboard, a Sudanese woman in a black hijab and black-and-white caftan clapped her hands together, signaling the beginning of the rehearsal.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2024

The set was styled after a New England farmhouse, with mock Shaker furniture and antique farm equipment, pitchforks and so forth, hanging from the clapboard backdrop.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt