birdlime
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Tables, people, pipes and wine bottles were all reduced to barely decipherable fragments, each seen from a different angle and painted in various shades of birdlime and mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without the peregrine falcons to keep them in check, they were so numerous that the courthouse windows and ledges were white with birdlime.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
She went off to harvest the birdlime traps.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Back and forth they went, gluing the grass to the birdlime until it was covered up.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
When the heart is thus birdlimed, then it cleaves to everything it meets with.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
