birdlime
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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
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
She went off to harvest the birdlime traps.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
The birdlime had entangled a few queleas and a mouse that had been attracted by their fluttering.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Then they came to the ring of birdlime.
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
