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The installation by a crane of a new golden rooster, reimagined as a dramatic phoenix with licking, flamed feathers, goes beyond being just a weathervane atop the cathedral spire.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2023

A miniature weathervane scallop toast has a housemade milk-bread exterior that’s crisply browned, the creamy and sea-sweet interior made with Walla Walla sweet onion and sake.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

The UAE has always been something of a weathervane — a small country that used its oil wealth to become one of globalization’s most important hubs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2021

There are a few heavy-handed signposts — it’s bad luck to kill a sea bird — and we couldn’t be more obvious with the juvenile boom up the lighthouse to the Mary Poppins weathervane.

From The Verge • Oct. 18, 2019

Inside the museum there’s a bronze weathervane of Dona Ines de Bobadilla, Cuba’s first woman governor, holding the Cross of Calatrava.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García