watergate

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This is a very personal, literal watergate, and it has made Selleck the new face of celebrity drought-shaming, a term of our times for high-profile people who flout state-mandated efforts to curb water consumption.

From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2015

There it had been hoped to build a palace worthy of the Leauge of Nations with a magnificent watergate in memory of all the soldiers who were killed in the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

The city, built on the skirt of a wall-like mountain, has a watergate and a landgate known as Bab al-Sákayn.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The barges that drew up at the watergate were fewer as summer went on, and the long tables in hall were more and more deserted; even the Archbishop himself seemed silent and cast down.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

The mayor closing the watergate caused much vexation to the lawyers rowing by boat to Westminster, and the king had to interfere.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter