Both Uses of
loophole
in
Don Quixote
- To go on with my story; the courtyard of our prison was overlooked by the windows of the house belonging to a wealthy Moor of high position; and these, as is usual in Moorish houses, were rather loopholes than windows, and besides were covered with thick and close lattice-work.†
Chpt 1.39-40
- "Only one of your fair hands," said Maritornes, "to enable her to vent over it the great passion passion which has brought her to this loophole, so much to the risk of her honour; for if the lord her father had heard her, the least slice he would cut off her would be her ear."†
Chpt 1.43-44 *
Definition:
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(loophole) something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation -- especially in the text of a law or contract