birdcage
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But I bought an old, rusty metal birdcage the seller said was from France.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
In a rather tragic detail that feels straight out of a fable, Tiny Pinocchio was kept in a decorative metal birdcage when people visited the house to prevent him from accidentally getting squished.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage — a perfect metaphor — in a central location.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
There’s a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2020
Fortunately, as Marilyn Frye has noted, every birdcage has a door, and every birdcage can be broken and can corrode.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
"Who else but Bunny would collect beautiful Georgian birdcages?" said Guy Schooling, the chairman of Sworders.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
She lives in an antebellum mansion in rural Tennessee surrounded by books — many of them kept in antique birdcages for some reason — and no parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
There are fin-de-siècle birdcages where car and shaft are unenclosed but for ornate wrought-iron gates and the ride brings a pleasant rush of vertigo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
“And his daddy taught me how to make birdcages, which is where I think Tessy got her craftiness from.”
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
