weather house

noun

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

Example Sentences

Like the man and woman on an Alpine weather house, as one comes on, the other exits.

From The Guardian

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She could see the backs of two books Patsy had a great admiration for, "Fardarougha the Miser" and "Charles O'Malley"; and, on the chimney-piece, there were two large pink shells and a weather house which she had often seen on Patsy's chimney-piece.

From Project Gutenberg