cold-water

American  

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.

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cold-water

Transported in specialised cold-water containers by truck and plane, the animals were accompanied throughout the journey by marine mammal veterinarians.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Many of the well-known people who endorse cold-water swimming are professional athletes—people who are, it should be noted, among the most superstitious on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

"That and its complementary current, the Humboldt current, the cold-water current, have been a subject of a lot of examination over the years," he adds.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

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

“So over here is the cold-water experience, with your penguins and beluga whales and whatnot. And over there...well, those are some fish, obviously.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan