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weather house

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noun

  1. a model house with two human figures, one that comes out to foretell bad weather and the other to foretell good weather

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Kahn bought the weather house for 50�, wrote it up in a mail-order in a local newspaper.

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An old battered Swiss weather house caught his eye, and Kahn had an idea.

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