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‖ girouette|ʒirwɛt|
[F. girouette, obscurely connected with gire-r:—L. gȳrāre to revolve. It. has giroetta from Fr.]
A weather-cock. Also fig.
1822L. Simond Switzerland I. 323 You might as well pretend to stigmatize Talma or Mademoiselle Mars, with the name of girouettes, for not acting every night the same part, as our French politicians and philosophers, for changing sides and principles from day to day. 1831Jekyll Corresp. (1894) 2/4 He is no ordinary girouette. 1857Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 232 However nicely the weather-cock may be poised..some breeze must breathe..to make the girouette spin round.
Hence girouettism, constant changing of opinions or principles. [Cf. F. girouetterie.]
1825New Monthly Mag. XIV. 109 Girouettism is the natural vice of revolutionary times and political consistency the rarest..of virtues. |