Judas window

noun

Definitions

  1. A window enabling a prison guard to see into a cell without being seen by the prisoner.

    • A prisoner may be confined nude in a cell with a Judas window and intruded upon periodically while there.
    • Luckily an officer happened to look through the judas-window in the door and rushed in to save the witness

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