What do people mean when they say, 'A watering place'?

Salsomaggiore then became one of the most famous and celebrated watering places in Europe.

The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.

Every watering place in this desert held its chain of life.

He would absolutely accompany me to the carriage which waited at the watering place.

She could also, in her mind's eye, see herself facing the women at the watering place.

We started on again, very early, and made the next watering place while the shadows were still long with dawn.

The expedition left a watering place and a vegetable garden.

The watering place is no place for you to be.

There was an earlier exodus this year of people who were anybody to the watering places and Europe.