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 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

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 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