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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

... gleam of comfort round our bit fireside: and, long ere the day had come about which was to crown our expectations, Nanse was prepared with her bit stock of baby's wearing apparel, and all necessaries appertaining thereto—wee little mutches with lace borders, and side-knots of blue three-ha'penny ribbon—long muslin frockies, vandyked across the breast, drawn round the waist with narrow nittings, and tucked five rows about the tail—Welsh-flannel petticoaties—demity wrappers—a coral gum-stick, ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir

... could shift the ribbon or flip a sheet of paper in and out with the ease of an expert. Then she began studying the keyboard, to learn the position of the letters, and after that it was only a question of practice to gain speed. Fingers that had learned nimbleness ...

— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... little girl, and had met him one day at the edge of lawyer Royall's pasture. "They won't any of 'em touch you up there, f'ever you was to come up.... But I don't s'pose you will," he had added philosophically, looking at her new shoes, and at the red ribbon that Mrs. Royall had tied ...

— Summer • Edith Wharton

... Monona, eyeing her stonily. But she found that her hair-ribbon could be pulled forward to meet her lips, and she embarked on the biting of an end. Lulu departed for some sauce and cake. It was apple sauce. Mr. Deacon remarked that the apples were almost as good as if he had stolen them. ...

— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale

... beach a crowd was standing around a new boat wreathed with flowers. Its mast, sail and ropes were covered with long streamers of ribbon that floated in the breeze, and the name, "Jeanne," was painted in gold letters ...

— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

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