clapboard house

collocation in English

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clapboard
noun
uk
/ˈklæp.bɔːd/us
/ˈklæp.bɔːrd/
US
a series of boards fixed horizontally to the outside of a building, with each board partly covering the one below, to protect the building from ...
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house
noun
uk
/haʊs/us
/haʊs/
a building that people, usually one family, ...
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(Definition ofclapboardandhousefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a two storyclapboardhouseresting on a limestone block foundation.
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The two-storyclapboardhousehas original heart-pine floors in the entrance hall, wainscoting in the parlor and the original stairway.
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Five-bay two-storyclapboardhouseoriginally built in 1845 and heavily renovated in 1870.
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It was built about 1800, and is a 1 1/2-storyclapboardhousewith two flanking wings set back from the faade.
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It is a -story beadedclapboardhouse, three bays wide by three deep, and built about 1780.
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The house was built in 1820 and is a simple whiteclapboardhouse.
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The 2 1/2-storyclapboardhousehas remained basically unaltered since it was built in 1810.
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Often wives' homes consisted of only small rundown clapboard houses with peeling paint and broken windows.
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The workers also received land on which to build a house; the resulting structures ranged clapboard houses to log cabins to tarpaper shacks to tents.
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This two-story plus attic beadedclapboardhouseis five bays wide with an entrance in the center bay of both the first and second stories on the east faade.
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