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Weather vane   /wˈɛðər veɪn/   Listen
Weather vane

noun
1.
Mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind.  Synonyms: vane, weathervane, wind vane.





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... and Russia. She was ready to yield at least part of Alsace-Lorraine to France. When the negotiations fell through, cartoonists were again free to make sport of the aenemic Gaul and the untutored Slav. It was not alone in Germany that a responsive Press played the weather vane to Government wishes; but in Germany ...
— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer


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