peephole
Noun
Meaning
A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
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I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.
As seen through the slit in her gown’s skirt, extremely high platform pumps with a big toe peephole gave the diminutive Mexican-American thespian extra height.
Carter, p. 71. Visitors to the Stonewall Inn in 1969 were greeted by a bouncer who inspected them through a peephole in the door.