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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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
But the understated house was more New England saltbox than brutalist concrete fantasy.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
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
Ræst, which occupies one of the oldest buildings in Tórshavn, has small wood-panelled rooms, giving it the feel of a saltbox house on Nantucket, though it is imbued with a distinctive, near-rancid smell.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
Some I like just for their names: the barndominium, the geodesic dome, and the Queenslander; a saltbox, a snout house, or a Yaodong.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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