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ribband
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Word definitions for ribband in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a ribbon used as a decoration [syn: riband ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context shipbuilding English) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework. Etymology 2 n. (context obsolete English) A ribbon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1711, in shipbuilding, from rib (n.) + band (n.1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ribbon \Rib"bon\, n. [OE. riban, OF. riban, F. ruban, probably of German origin; cf. D. ringband collar, necklace, E. ring circle, and band.] [Written also riband , ribband .] A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part ...
Usage examples of ribband.
Look, Loo, how the ivory light bathes the prairie and shimmers on the sea of corn, and makes of the little creek a ribband of silver.
She had drawn a blue ribband that she happened to possess, round the arms of the dress and round the bodice of it, and when she saw how this little thread of colour set off the full outlines of her bust and the white roundness of her arms, she could have kissed her image in the glass.
Elton, I must beg leave to stop at your house, and ask your housekeeper for a bit of ribband or string, or any thing just to keep my boot on.
He has a pair of very good eyes in his head, which not being sufficient as it should seem for the many nice and difficult purposes of a senator, he has a third also, which he wore suspended by a ribband from his buttonhole.
Give me but what this ribband bound, Take all the rest the Sun goes round.
Then he laid it down again and took the thicker end, which was tied tightly with a ribband, in his hands, pulling at the short lengths of hair which projected beyond the knot.
Therein it is ordered that the root of Vervain shall be tied with a yard of white satin ribband round the neck of the patient until he recovers.
He was trailing a long ribband of seaweed he had picked up and as he drew closer she saw that he had left his ill-humor behind him.
Touche listened, standing, and still holding the ribband of seaweed in his fingers.
Thou shalt have ribbands, roses, rings, Gloves, garters, stockings, shoes, and strings Of winning colours, that shall move Others to lust, but me to love.
He suffered the wheel and blackout of the ribbands that encircled his head, the electronic cluckings of the little plates that sucked against his temples.
And he loved Literature the more, because her distinctions were not those of the world--because she had neither ribbands, nor stars, nor high places at her command.
His companionship disdains ceremonious livery, scorns ribbands, and scoffs at gew-gaws.
Our gunwales had been torn away, our single sail had been rent to ribbands, and borne down the stream of the wind.
They make baskets with long lids that roll doubly over them, and in these they place their earrings and pendants, their bracelets, garters, their ribbands for their hair, and their vermillion for painting themselves, if they have any, but when they have no vermillion they boil ochre, and paint themselves with that.