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Synonyms for birdcage


Grammar : Noun
Spell : burd-keyj
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɜrdˌkeɪdʒ



Définition of birdcage

Origin :
  • also bird-cage, late 15c., from bird (n.1) + cage (n.).
  • As in coop : noun pen
Example sentences :
  • She slipped down and ran into the next room to come back with a birdcage.
  • Extract from : « Mary Rose of Mifflin » by Frances R. Sterrett
  • The birdcage and dog musical-box in the illustration are of this kind.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
  • The birdcage, instead of being high in the tree, is lowered and hangs from it.
  • Extract from : « Pickwickian Manners and Customs » by Percy Fitzgerald
  • I suspect this is owing to what passed in the House about opening the Birdcage Walk.
  • Extract from : « The Greville Memoirs » by Charles C. F. Greville
  • The scene afterwards in the Birdcage when I went in to see him weighed was most amusing.
  • Extract from : « Sporting Society, Vol. II (of 2) » by Various
  • A birdcage hung in the sunny window of her house when she was a girl.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • I have just time to stroll down the Mall and back by Birdcage Walk.'
  • Extract from : « Dorothy's Double » by G. A. Henty
  • He is a lover of pets, as we see by the birdcage hanging in the window.
  • Extract from : « Landseer » by Estelle M. Hurll
  • They left the white house with the green balcony hung out like a birdcage at the side, and turned into the cottage at Hampstead.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • She would see the row of elms and the white wall at the end with the green balcony hung out like a birdcage above the green door.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair

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