weather house
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
weather house (plural weather houses)
- A mechanical contrivance in the form of a house, which indicates changes in atmospheric conditions by the appearance or retirement of toy images.
- Synonym: weather box
- 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
- Peace to the artist whose ingenious thought / Devised the weather house, that useful toy!