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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking modern plumbing or heating facilities.

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Examples

  • Moreover, its gers that were equipped with bathrooms had only toilets and cold-water sinks.

    Dunes Struck 2011

  • "We put firefighters in the water in cold-water rescue suits," Mr. Vatter said.

    Family's Hudson Tragedy Sean Gardiner 2011

  • The sisters, fresh from their cold-water baths, had stripped down to their sleep clothes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The sisters, fresh from their cold-water baths, had stripped down to their sleep clothes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • A cold-water rinse of the beer-soaked rags caused heavy saturation of the Zorbeez, but the Shamwow sprung back after wringing and seemed to have already shed most of the moisture.

    Archive 2009-03-22 Tyler 2009

  • The sisters, fresh from their cold-water baths, had stripped down to their sleep clothes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The bathroom consists of a Western toilet, a cold-water sink with a water heater and shower head attached to the wall that is often not separated from the rest of the bathroom inside a shower stall.

    Is Teaching English in China Really for You? « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • The sisters, fresh from their cold-water baths, had stripped down to their sleep clothes.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • The flower hat jelly, a rare cold-water species with pinstriped crimson bands on its bell, lives on the outcroppings of plants and uses its lustrous tentacles to paralyze the fish it consumes.

    Balletic Flowers of the Sea Joel Henning 2011

  • A cold-water rinse of the beer-soaked rags caused heavy saturation of the Zorbeez, but the Shamwow sprung back after wringing and seemed to have already shed most of the moisture.

    See, THIS is the kind of stuff that science should be testing Tyler 2009

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