Plural of birdcage; enclosed structures made of wood or wire designed to house and contain pet birds.
Compound of 'bird' and 'cage,' dating back centuries when keeping caged birds became popular among the wealthy in Asia and Europe. The term evolved from the function of the object itself.
The birdcage became such a symbol of confinement and the tension between beauty and captivity that it shows up constantly in art and literature—from Victorian paintings to modern metaphors about freedom and restriction, the image of a beautiful bird in a cage captures something deeply human about limitation.
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