weathervane

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind

The birds on the weathervanes were set up facing the wind, so that it entered their open mouths, and by some mechanism produced the musical sound. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, that capritious and bizarre weathervane which changes at almost every new wind. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

weather vane, vane, wind vane

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