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Ribbon

noun

(Written also riband, ribband)

Any long object resembling a thin line. Synonym: thread. "The lighted ribbon of traffic" , "From the air the road was a grey thread" , "A thread of smoke climbed upward"

An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event. Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm.

A long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter. Synonym: typewriter ribbon.

Notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming.

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"Ribbon" Quotes from Famous Books

... women of the region,—mistresses as well as "hired girls,"—a dark-print gown, but, like Ophelia's rue, "it was worn with a difference," fitting her lithe, graceful figure to perfection, and set off by a dainty band of white and knot of ribbon at the throat. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

... brim to one fixed shape, and that none of the handsomest. The wearer is obliged to turn her head full ninety degrees before she can see the person who is standing by her side. But in New York the ladies have the brim of the hat not fettered with wire or tape or ribbon, but quite free and undulating; and by applying the hand to it they can conceal or expose as much of the face as circumstances require. This hiding and exposing of the face, by the by, is certainly a dangerous movement, and often fatal to the passing swain. I am convinced, ...

— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

... on horse and rider emerged out of the wood and the Brussels road stretched out its long straight ribbon before Bobby Clyffurde's dull, ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

... dauntless circle of men that encompassed Coke. None dared confront the Seniors openly, but by headlong rushes at auspicious moments they tried to come to quarters with the rings of dark-browed Sophomores. It was no longer a festival, a game; it was a riot. Coke, wild-eyed, pallid with fury, a ribbon of blood on his chin, swayed in the middle of the mob of his classmates, comrades who waived the ethics of the blow under the circumstance of being obliged as a corps to stand against the scorn of the whole college, as well as ...

— Active Service • Stephen Crane

... asked what Brother Rabbit laughed for, as 'Tildy paused to adjust a flaming red ribbon-bow pinned in ...

— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris

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