picket fences
Suburban property dividers
Picket fences are fences made of evenly spaced vertical boards (pickets) attached to horizontal rails, typically painted white.
The image of a white picket fence has become shorthand for traditional American suburban domesticity—the idealized home with a yard and family: the American dream of a house with a white picket fence.
- suburbiaResidential areas outside cities
- palingStakes forming a boundary
- woodenMade from timber
- stakesPosts or wagers
- yardsOutdoor home spaces
Tom Sawyer · post · boundaries · property lines · borders · slats · American Dream · Leave It to Beaver · small town America · garages · structure · hedgerows · neighborhood · tree-lined streets · rail · backyard · spindle · community
- rusticbarns, cabins, farmhouses, log cabins, hay bales
- Small-Town Lifegeneral store, town square, front porch, church steeple, water tower
- AmericanaAmerican flag, Fourth of July, bald eagle, Thanksgiving, apple pie
- Rural sceneryrolling hills, meadows, pastures, farmhouses, barns
- suburbiasuburb, suburbs, suburbia, burbs, subdivision
- Coastalseashells, driftwood, waves, sand dollars, dunes
picket fencesbarbed wire
Spiked metal fence material
razor wire · concrete walls · electric fences · stone walls · brick walls
picket fencesslums
Impoverished, crowded districts
housing projects · barbed wire · urban blight · prison walls · tenement housing
picket fencesprison walls
Structures enclosing incarcerated people
fortress walls · barricades · blast walls · guard towers · bunkers
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