kissing gate

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.

kissing gate

noun

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

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

When they came out of the woods and had gone through the kissing gate, she stopped and turned.

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