This morning's word from Maigret's yellow dog story is meurtrière, a murderess or, adjectivally, something used for murderous purposes. Also a loophole in a castle wall.
While our loophole, as well as being to do with castles, is also something through which lawyers do murder on laws which their clients have broken. Usually something important for them to be prepared to pay for the sort of lawyer needed for - or willing to do - such work.
With the loop bit derived from an old Dutch word originally meaning to peep or peer.
So a fairly weak connection.
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