birdcage
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Moretz posted photos of herself on Instagram rocking a baby blue gown along with images of Harrison wearing a white dress with a sweetheart neckline and a birdcage veil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
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
During one moment of digging, Volunteer Bekir Bicer uncovered a crushed birdcage, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
He moved to a back corner, beneath what looked like a kind of rubber plant, and pointed out a birdcage, which I hadn’t seen before.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Sworders said Campione's collection of birdcages dated back as far as the 18th century, when the keeping of exotic birds was a popular pastime for affluent families.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
In others, birdcages are small prisons for a variety of objects placed inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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
She thinks she longs for rest, a carefree afternoon to decide suddenly to go to the pictures, or just to sit With the birdcages and listen to the children play in snow.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
