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clapboard

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


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Clapboard homes line the streets, and several yards hold rusty vehicles.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2012

Some live in cabins with a huge log wall, Nary a window in it at all, Sandstone chimney and a puncheon floor, Clapboard roof and a button door .

From Time Magazine Archive

Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wrote that the workingmen had made a beginning of "Pitch and Tarre, Glass, Sope-ashes and Clapboard," but that little had been accomplished.

From The Planters of Colonial Virginia by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

The old Clapboard House on the John Dalton property and believed to have been his original house.

From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague




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