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bellwether (n.)
mid-14c. (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin; late 12c. as a surname), from
bell
(n.) +
wether
; the lead sheep (on whose neck a bell was hung) of a domesticated flock. Figurative sense of "chief, leader" is from mid-14c.
