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cold-water

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adjective

  1. denoting a room or apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.

    a cold-water flat.

Example Sentences

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They are ready to remake the world from their cold-water garret.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

Mr Ramsay said David's swimming ability "would have been a factor" too as well as the possible element of cold-water shock and panic.

From BBC • May 21, 2025

Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

Lupita went to the washbasin, turned on the cold-water tap, and mopped at her eyes and cheeks with a damp paper towel.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

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