Definition of "cold-water" []

• Lacking modern plumbing or heating facilities: a cold-water flat. (adjective)

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