All 6 Uses of
loophole
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- The Loophole Of Retreat.†
Chpt 21 *loophole = something left out of a rule that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation
- I was thankful when there came a day sufficiently mild for me to wrap myself up and sit at the loophole to watch the passers by.†
Chpt 21
- All this, and much more, I thought of, as I sat at my loophole, waiting for the family to return from the grave; sometimes weeping, sometimes falling asleep, dreaming strange dreams of the dead and the living.†
Chpt 28
- Countless were the nights that I sat late at the little loophole scarcely large enough to give me a glimpse of one twinkling star.†
Chpt 29
- The next morning I peeped through my loophole, and saw that it was dark and cloudy.†
Chpt 29
- I had not spoken to him for seven years, though I had been under the same roof, and seen him every day, when I was well enough to sit at the loophole.†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(1)
(loophole) a gap in a rule, allowing avoidance of the rule's core intent -- especially in the text of a law or contract
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, loophole can refer to a small opening in a castle that provides light and air, and allows an arrow to be fired from within. The opening is narrow enough that it is largely protects from incoming arrows.