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Judas hole; Judas eye; Judas window; Judas
noun
a small peep-hole in a door through which one can see who is outside the door without been seen from outside US, 1865- Inside the steel door of the cell block was a basket of steel bars around the Judas window. — Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, p. 44, 1953
- She got her copy of the New York Herald-Tribune from the mat outside her door, first peeping through the Judas window to make certain the coast was clear[.] — Chester Himes, The Primitive, p. 12, 1955
- “Like a jail,” said Kay. “‘Judases,’ don’t they call them?” — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 310, 1963
- Upstairs, at the end of a long corridor of doors with painted windows on both sides, there’s another door all wood with a Judas hole in the middle of it. I knock and the slide clicks back. — Robert Campbell, Junkyard Dog, p. 68, 1986
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 67, 1996
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