kissing gate

American  

noun

British.

1. a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.

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kissing gate British  

noun

1. a gate set in a U- or V-shaped enclosure, allowing only one person to pass through at a time

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Example Sentences

She passed through a kissing gate onto the B4398, with the intention of re-joining the towpath through a similar gate, diagonally opposite on the other side of the road.

From BBC

I glanced at Grant Burch to see how impressed he was but he was looking toward the kissing gate over by Saint Gabriel's.

From Literature

Once through the iron kissing gate, and past the rhododendrons beneath the ha-ha, she crossed the open parkland—sold off to a local farmer to graze his cows on—and came up behind the fountain and its retaining wall and the half-scale reproduction of Bernini’s Triton in the Piazza Barberini in Rome.

From Literature

The only other route out was through the kissing gate, down toward the river.

From Literature

It was one of those rare mornings which declares itself, with a boastful extravagance of warmth and light and new leaves, as the true beginning, the grand portal to summer, and he was walking through it with Briony, past the Triton pond, down beyond the ha-ha and rhododendrons, through the iron kissing gate and onto the winding narrow woodland path.

From Literature