"Judas window" meaning in All languages combined

See Judas window on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Judas windows [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Judas window (plural Judas windows)
  1. A window enabling a prison guard to see into a cell without being seen by the prisoner.
    Sense id: en-Judas_window-en-noun-RunSR5fl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, James P. Sterba, Creighton Peden, Freedom, equality, and social change, page 314:",
          "text": "A prisoner may be confined nude in a cell with a Judas window and intruded upon periodically while there. Strip searches are used arbitrarily, either in response to minor offenses or simply to intimidate.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A window enabling a prison guard to see into a cell without being seen by the prisoner."
      ],
      "id": "en-Judas_window-en-noun-RunSR5fl",
      "links": [
        [
          "window",
          "window"
        ],
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ],
        [
          "guard",
          "guard"
        ],
        [
          "cell",
          "cell"
        ],
        [
          "prisoner",
          "prisoner"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Judas window"
}
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  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      ],
      "links": [
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          "window",
          "window"
        ],
        [
          "prison",
          "prison"
        ],
        [
          "guard",
          "guard"
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          "cell",
          "cell"
        ],
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          "prisoner",
          "prisoner"
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      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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