What is "ribbands"

Usage examples of "ribbands".

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.

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.