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saltbox

/ ˈɔːˌɒ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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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.

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

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

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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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