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Birdcage   /bˈərdkeɪdʒ/   Listen
Birdcage

noun
1.
A cage in which a bird can be kept.



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"Birdcage" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself completely in his own sphere at Whitehall, where the habits were far more French than English. Along that stately Mall, overshadowed with umbrageous trees, which retains—and it is to be hoped ever will retain—the old name of the 'Birdcage Walk,' one can picture to oneself the king walking so fast that no one can keep up with him; yet stopping from time to time to chat with some acquaintances. He is walking to Duck Island, which is full of his favourite water-fowl, and of which he has given St. Evremond the government. ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

... view, he entered the room one afternoon while Elisabeth was standing by the window and sticking some fresh chick- weed in a gilded birdcage which he had not seen in the place before. In the cage was a canary, which was flapping its wings and shrilly chirruping as it pecked at Elisabeth's fingers. Previously to this Reinhard's bird had hung in ...
— Immensee • Theodore W. Storm



Words linked to "Birdcage" :   cage, birdcage mask, coop



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