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Decoys were and are used for other birds as well as ducks, and _vogel-kooi_ in Dutch applies to all birds, (answering to our trap-cage,) the special apparatus for ducks being an _eende-kooi_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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The idea for De gouden kooi The Golden Cage was the precursor to Big Brother — the difference is that it doesn’t have a set end-date.
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