birdcage
[burd-keyj]
- a cage for confining birds.
- something that resembles a birdcage in form.
- Slang. the airspace over an airport, together with the airplanes in it.
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Origin of birdcage
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Contemporary Examples
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Historical Examples
She slipped down and ran into the next room to come back with a birdcage.
Mary Rose of MifflinFrances R. Sterrett
The birdcage and dog musical-box in the illustration are of this kind.
Chatterbox, 1905.Various
The birdcage, instead of being high in the tree, is lowered and hangs from it.
Pickwickian Manners and CustomsPercy Fitzgerald
I suspect this is owing to what passed in the House about opening the Birdcage Walk.
The Greville MemoirsCharles C. F. Greville
The scene afterwards in the Birdcage when I went in to see him weighed was most amusing.
birdcage
- a wire or wicker cage in which captive birds are kept
- any object of a similar shape, construction, or purpose
- Australian and NZ an area on a racecourse where horses parade before a race
- NZ informal a second-hand car dealer's yard
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