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 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

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 two women hid themselves in the reeds, and Pharaoh's daughter appeared with her attendants at the watergate.

From Historical Miniatures by Strindberg, August