loophole
/ˈluphoʊl/ nom C1En français : meurtrière, échappatoire, brèche
- A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light.
- A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
Pluriel loopholes
Dans la bibliothèque
From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
The wall of which he spoke was the one in which was fixed the loophole by which light was admitted to the chamber.
This loophole, which gradually diminished in size as it approached the outside, to an opening through which a child could not have passed, was, for better security, furnished with three iron bars, so as to quiet all apprehensions even in the mind of the most suspicious jailer as to the possibility of a prisoner’s escape.
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