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saltbox
/ ˈɔːˌɒ /
noun
a box for salt with a sloping lid
a house that has two storeys in front and one storey at the back, with a gable roof that extends downwards over the rear
Example Sentences
In contrast, the watercolors of saltboxes or a Victorian house abstain from the dazzling effects this medium encourages.
For decades, he and his wife lived in a 19th-century saltbox house in Stony Brook, N.Y., on the North Shore of Long Island.
There we had booked a week’s stay in a historical hip-roof saltbox right next to an Atlantic inlet.
But the understated house was more New England saltbox than brutalist concrete fantasy.
Swift, who co-wrote the track with Dessner, croons in the opening lyric: “Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train, it was sunny — her saltbox house on the coast took her mind off St. Louis.”
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