Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weathercock; hence, one who is given to frequent change, as in opinions, purpose, etc.; an inconstant person.
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Examples
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Next, Newforest commented on the "la girouette" and, like that, we all learned the fanciful French word for weather-vane!
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Next, Newforest commented on the "la girouette" and, like that, we all learned the fanciful French word for weather-vane!
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Strange - When I saw the girouette picture in Cinema Verite, I had thought that the mouse was a cat (a small one).
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Next, Newforest commented on the"la girouette" and, like that, we all learned the fanciful French word for weather-vane!
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Next, Newforest commented on the"la girouette" and, like that, we all learned the fanciful French word for weather-vane!
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Strange - When I saw the girouette picture in Cinema Verite, I had thought that the mouse was a cat a small one.
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SUPER MARIO loco locass on refait surface le temps dla campagne on arrive en ville faut kla toune a spin pour contrer le spin de la droite adroite ouais!!! sa suffit les pirouette des idéologies girouette qu'ici j'ai les bras long pis jtombe a bras raccourcis sur geranium premier pis les gros légume du partie chikichak awaye la sauce
Archive 2007-03-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007
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"You are changed; you are a _girouette_, Mariamne."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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It was nothing but a rusty girouette on top of a chimney being turned by the wind and scratching spitefully at every turn.
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918
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