- a variation of salt-box.
saltbox
Britishnoun
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a box for salt with a sloping lid
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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
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Mendocino, dominated by Victorian and New England-style saltbox houses, is built on bluffs overlooking the Pacific and surrounded by dramatic coast and forest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The detached single-family house has been the great constant of American life, from the saltbox farmhouses of 17th-century New England to the modern mansions of 2020s suburbia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
There we had booked a week’s stay in a historical hip-roof saltbox right next to an Atlantic inlet.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Doorbells have always had an odd aesthetic appeal to me—from the rococo plastic swoops attached to suburban McMansions to the bare gray rectangular ones on saltbox New England duplexes.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2018
They learn the names of the different architectural styles: cape, saltbox, raised ranch, garrison.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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