The word 'clapboard' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a long, thin board with one edge thicker than the other, used especially to cover the outside walls of houses. Example: The old house was charming with its white clapboard siding and brightly colored shutters.
Wandering through the dense undergrowth, we came across little stone churches and clapboard houses.
This was Shelby, a landscape of clapboard Baptist churches and faceless corporate franchises, where one man, acting in almost total isolation, had over a period of eight years cemented his reputation as the most fearsome digital pirate of all.
ILE DE RE The pretty clapboard houses and cobbled streets of the Ile de Ré – a small island linked to the French city of La Rochelle by road bridge – are idyllic at any time of the year, with long sandy beaches and pine forests to explore on foot or by bike.
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Twisting sharply upwards from the waterfront, these neighbouring barrios are home to galleries, restaurants, bars and hotels, all tucked away on quiet, cobbled streets lined with clapboard houses in kaleidoscopic colours.
In one direction, a generous lawn rolls down to the Atlantic; in the other, a lane meanders to a quaint town of clapboard houses and antique shops.Yet retirement is the last thing on 71-year-old Ms Seltzer's mind.
The steel town, though down on its luck, has an all-American feel, with well-kept clapboard bungalows and plenty of patriotic flags.
"American Gothic", he said, was not a portrait: Wood had merely asked his sister Nan and the local dentist to pose for him, dressing them up and adapting their faces into a stylised, anonymous image of a man and his daughter who would fit into the now famous clapboard house in Eldon, Iowa.
A boy is shown walking towards his clapboard house over which looms a smelter chimney belching out fumes into a cobalt blue sky.
The green itself is the Platonic ideal of a New England village green, with a white, tall-steepled Congregational church at the centre of a carefully tended lawn, surrounded by salt-box Colonial houses (white clapboard, dark-green shutters).
From outside the two-storey building seems unremarkable: its neat white trim, pale-yellow clapboard siding and shingle roof have been the local style for centuries.But the house that Mr Rogers finished last year is anything but traditional.
