Usually means: Luxurious confinement limiting personal freedom.
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  1. gilded cage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. gilded cage: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gilded cage: Wiktionary
  4. gilded cage: Dictionary.com
  5. The Gilded Cage (The Avengers), The Gilded Cage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (gilded cage)

noun:  (figuratively) A place (or, by extension, situation) which is superficially attractive but nevertheless constraining; a comfortable but confined situation.

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