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

We were on an island and owned a watergate if we wanted to take a boat.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Since I had passed through that strange watergate to the City of Fire, the day had ended: it was night.

From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax

The gardens of the Victoria Embankment now fill up the space over which the river formerly flowed, and the watergate is merely a meaningless ornament 100 yards or more from the water.

From The Strand District The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir