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means A freestanding cupboard with punched-tin or screened panels, used before refrigeration to store pies and other food where air could pass through but insects couldn't.

from An American coinage from the 1800s, pairing 'pie' (from Old English/Medieval Latin 'pica,' possibly nodding to the magpie's habit of collecting odds and ends, much like a pie's mixed filling) with 'safe' in its old sense of a food-storage container, as in 'meat safe' — a cupboard that kept food 'safe' from pests. The tin panels were often hand-punched into decorative patterns, so the holes let air circulate while staying too small for flies.