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
Mindy is bracingly funny but also masculine enough to intimidate Jerry, the delicate peacock in this gilded birdcage.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
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
Above the desk, there was a birdcage, rocking back and forth.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
Bunny Campione, an expert on the long-running BBC series, included antique birdcages and miniature furniture among the 20 lots up for grabs.
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
The house on Bartram Road would be cleared of its birdcages after Angelou’s death in 2014.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
Round spheres that resemble birdcages rise and descend while one or more aerialists move from within the sphere to without, standing on the top or hanging from the bars on the bottom.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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