| 单词 | clapboard |
| 释义 | clapboardWord family nounclapperclapperingclappingclapboardclapbreadclapnetclapometerclapperboardclapperboyclapperclawerclaptrapclaptrapperyclapadjectiveclapped-outverbclapperclaw Building clap·board /ˈklæpbɔːd $ ˈklæbərd, ˈklæpbɔːrd/ noun [countableC, uncountableU] TB especially British EnglishBrE a set of boards used to cover the outside of a building, or one of these boards 〔建筑物的〕外墙护墙板，搭接板 clapboard houses 装有护墙板的房子 Examples from the Corpus clapboard• a clapboard house• There was a picture of a village street, the houses were battered clapboard and there were a lot of horses around.• Bushes weigh their meted dollops, and the boxy clapboard churches are drenched and cleansed by a piquant light from the east.• Avant took Chandler through the white side of Crenshaw, with its neat clapboard homes and tidy front porches.• There it is-an old clapboard farmhouse against a gray sky.• Nailed over the doorway of the ramshackle clapboard frontage of the building was a large rectangular sign.• I wonder whether any of the clapboard houses I wander past is the house where it happened, where All killed herself.• In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower. (1600-1700) Part translation of Dutch klaphout, from klappen “to split” + hout “wood” |
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