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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. Djuna Barnes

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. Sylvia Plath

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! Yann Martel

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. Portuguese Proverb

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. Source: Internet

Carter, p. 71. Visitors to the Stonewall Inn in 1969 were greeted by a bouncer who inspected them through a peephole in the door. Source: Internet

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