saltbox

British  

/ ˈsɔːltˌbɒks /

noun

1. a box for salt with a sloping lid

2. a house that has two storeys in front and one storey at the back, with a gable roof that extends downwards over the rear

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Example Sentences

In contrast, the watercolors of saltboxes or a Victorian house abstain from the dazzling effects this medium encourages.

From New York Times

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.

From Washington Post

There we had booked a week’s stay in a historical hip-roof saltbox right next to an Atlantic inlet.

From Washington Post

But the understated house was more New England saltbox than brutalist concrete fantasy.

From Washington Post

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.”

From Washington Post