Type of N.E. colonial dwelling

Usage examples of saltbox.

Someone had made a fortune selling rich midwesterners on the idea of oversized mailboxes painted with New England themes: lighthouses, lobster boats, saltbox houses, beach dunes.

Upstairs, in the octagonal saltbox, were two Hooke-designed, Tompion-built clocks with thirteen-foot pendulums that ticked, or rather clunked, every two seconds, slower than the human heartbeat, a hypnotic rhythm that could be felt everywhere in the building.

Vigdis hurried away and Lucille stood there for several minutes, seething with resentment, before going downstairs to the room on the main floor that had once been the kitchen of the saltbox and now served as a coffee room for the research staff.

He had seen no one follow to the big saltbox house he had shared for so many happy months with Sophia.

Listen, there was a time when all India and I wanted was a saltbox house on the coast of Maine with lots of land around us.

He heard the hobo break into a shuffling run behind him, his old string-tied shoes slapping and flapping across the riotous lawn of the empty saltbox house.

Kinnell pulled off at the exit which circled the bright green Wells water tower, the one with the comic sign on it (KEEP MAINE GREEN, BRING MONEY in letters four feet high), and five minutes later he was turning into the driveway of her neat little saltbox house.

There were center-hall colonials and Victorians and an occasional New England saltbox, but most frequent were the Tudors, and I found myself daydreaming about someday hitting a Trifecta or marrying a rich widow and moving into one of them.