From the graveyard gate one can count a dozen gayly painted farmhouses; the gilded weather-vanes on the big red barns wink at each other across the green and brown and yellow fields.
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Weather vane
/ˈwɛð.ɚ veɪn/
Synonyms for "weather vane" (54 found)
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wind indicatorwind sockwind vanewind-speed indicator
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This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight.
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Since Elaine Showalter's 1985 article on the topic, Ophelia has been singled out as a role that depends for its power on the expression of female sexual desire, and, because of this, one that acts as a weather vane for attitudes towards women's sexuality.
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Possibly though the best weather vane of the shippers' condition is the attitude of the mill trade as a whole toward present laxness in new orders.
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