porthole

Synonyms for porthole

noun place or means of escape, release

noun. place or means of escape, release

noun. framework with pane

also port-hole, 1590s, from port (n.2) + hole (n.).

A porthole, with the black heavens and the blazing stars, was before her.

He looked around the fixed cabin and out the porthole at the unmoving stars.

He lowered a tender gaze on his banjo and I went on looking through the porthole.

He stood there, looking out the porthole, and forgot I was there.

Suddenly I became aware that the porthole was open, and fastened back.

"You were right about the porthole, Robert," I said, and I gave him the promised sovereign.

That room also was in darkness, with only one porthole open.

He led them to the stern, and to the little cabin, in which was a porthole.

Probably the speakers were in a cabin with the porthole open.

The sample which he had had through the porthole had not prepared him for the magic of it.