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Recent Examples of pie safe
Sara McDaniel, the owner of Simply Southern Cottage, is fortunate to have both her great grandmother’s pie safe and her granny’s dishes in her possession.
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Heather Bien, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
Porcelain pullout shelves were used to increase surface sizes, while wire shelves added to the air circulation within, much like a pie safe.
—Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
To bring autumnal coziness to a vintage pie safe or hutch, look to an antique scale chockfull of gourds.
—Shelby Deering, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2020
Heather Bien, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
Porcelain pullout shelves were used to increase surface sizes, while wire shelves added to the air circulation within, much like a pie safe.
—Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 29 Dec. 2022
To bring autumnal coziness to a vintage pie safe or hutch, look to an antique scale chockfull of gourds.
—Shelby Deering, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pie safe
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The Servidors are massive and must be kept in a storage unit, but many other items are in the china closet, to the chagrin of Mr. Lepore’s mother, Virginia.Dan Barry, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
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My china closet is peopled with memories, but only for me.Jessica Hornik, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
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Emma Corrin is perhaps one of the most avant garde dressers in the game.Aamina Inayat Khan, StyleCaster, 17 Dec. 2024
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The goal then became to fully furnish and unpack homes — putting dishes into cabinets, clothes into new dressers and hanging picture frames — with a big reveal to cap off the experience.Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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For the next 45 minutes, the medical team began performing chest compressions — and Marisa flatlined several times.Diane Herbst, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
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Geno standing right behind her, arms folded across his chest and the ball rims out.John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2025
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The appeals panel found that a defense secretary has the power to prevent a war court overseer from negotiating a plea deal as a general principle, just not retroactively.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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When asked whether Carter might have discussed the shuttle with the Soviet general secretary and whether that might have influenced his decisions, Damohn replied that Kraft’s story is essentially correct except for the part of Carter bragging to Brezhnev.Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
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The production designer collaborated with special effects supervisor Paul Corbould to design and construct three circular, motorized bookcases with internal ladders that could spin while the actors danced inside.Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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Until his death in 2005, the theater critic Mel Gussow spent most mornings writing reviews and profiles in an office in the rear of an 1856 rowhouse on West Tenth Street, where bookcases stretching up to 13-foot-high ceilings wrapped wall-to-wall, skipping only a marble fireplace.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Pie safe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pie%20safe. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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