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 Translation for 'bird cage' from English to French
NOUN1   bird-cage | bird-cages
NOUN2   a bird cage | bird cages
orn.
cage {f} (à oiseau)
bird cage
Partial Matches
cage {f}cage
3
anat.
cage {f} thoracique
rib cage
électr.phys.
cage {f} de Faraday
Faraday cage
électr.phys.
bouclier {f} de Faraday
Faraday cage
mycol.T
clathre {m} rouge [Clathrus ruber]
red cage
oiseau {m}bird
22
orn.
chant {m} des oiseaux
bird song
orn.T
oiseau {m} nicheur
breeding bird
orn.T
moqueur {m} polyglotte [Mimus polyglottos]
mocking-bird
orn.T
oiseau {m} nicheur
brooding bird
orn.
migrateur {m}
migratory bird
orn.
oiseau {m} sédentaire
resident bird
fiente {f}bird droppings­ {pl}
orn.T
échassier {m}
wading bird
orn.
oiseau {m} marin
sea bird
orn.
oiseau {m} marin
marine bird
orn.T
paruline {f} à gorge orangée [Setophaga fusca]
torch bird
orn.T
geai {m} bleu [Cyanocitta cristata]
jay bird
orn.T
guêpier {m} arc-en-ciel [Merops ornatus]
rainbow bird
orn.T
paruline {f} couronnée [Seiurus aurocapilla, syn. : Seiurus aurocapillus]
oven-bird
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Usage Examples English
  • It is sometimes called "bird cage" construction because the support looks similar to closely spaced wires used in construction of bird cages, and because the wire/tube support outline shows through once the fabric is tight.
  • The Smithsonian Institution constructed a walk-through bird cage for the World's Fair.
  • According to Stroud, he used a "razor blade and nail for tools" and made his first bird cage out of wooden crates.
  • In the Infocom game version of the story, Zaphod blends in on Earth by hiding his second head in a covered bird cage (an alternate Trillian also refers to this in "Mostly Harmless").
  • Some custom modifications include twisted forks, spokes or handlebars, what are known as "bird cages" (twisted metal strips that resemble a bird cage) that are cut and welded onto handlebars, sissy bars or pedals.

  • The bird cage is designed to collapse if it is not supported from both ends.
  • Chuck-a-luck is played with three standard dice that are kept in a device shaped somewhat like an hourglass which resembles a wire-frame bird cage and pivots about its centre.
  • He sees a man coming up onto the shore carrying an empty bird-cage and he carries on walking.
  • In 1904, it was the largest bird cage ever built.
  • Actress Pam Grier starred in several Filipino jungle films such as Roger Corman's "The Big Doll House" and its sequel "The Big Bird Cage", plus "Women in Cages", and "Black Mama White Mama" (story co-written by Jonathan Demme).

  • In the 1950s and 1960s, citizens would go to tea houses accompanied by their pet birds locked in a bird cage.
  • Among these paintings were Nicolas Lancret's "The Bird Cage" and François Boucher's "Madame Pompadour".
  • The huge bird cage at the Saint Louis Zoological Park, dates to the fair.
  • Open "bird-cage" elevators surrounded by wrought-iron grillwork go up to the fifth floor.
  • Some mechanical electrometers were housed inside a cage often referred to as a “bird cage”. This is a form of Faraday Cage that protected the instrument from external electrostatic charges.

  • Another distinctive feature of the local railway landscape also vanished at this time – the 'bird cage' bridge.
  • Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, a belly dancer who went by the stage name of "Fatima" got her start at the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881.
  • In addition, lightweight longitudinal channels were added between the circular rings, giving the internal structure the appearance of a huge bird cage.
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