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▪ I. riband, n. Now arch.|ˈrɪbənd| Forms: α. 4–6 ryban (5 -anne), reban (6 -en), 4–7 riban, 5, 7 ribban; 4–5 ribane, 5 ry-, rebane, rebayn; 5, 7 riben. β. 5–6 ryband, 6 re-, 6– riband; 6 ri-, ry-, reabande; 5 ribawnde, 6 rebaund; 5 re-, 6 rybende. γ. 6–9 ribband. See also ribbon and ruban. [a. OF. riban, ruban (13th cent.), of obscure origin: possibly a Teutonic compound of which the second element is band.] 1. = ribbon n. 1. a. Without article. α139.Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 285 Pro reban aureo pro domino. 1411Close Roll 13 Hen. IV, 2 li. Ryban et Frenges. 1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 238 For a gyrdyll off reban, ij.s. 1520MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for reban to mend ij vestmentis. 1525Will of J. Williams (Somerset Ho.), Ryban of silk. 1712Steele Spect. No. 478 ⁋7 Bows of Riban. βc1440Promp. Parv. 432/2 Ryband, of a clothe (K. ribawnde or liour..), limbus. 1477–9Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 80 Rebende of diuerse colowris, iiij s. 1534Inv. Wardr. Kath. Arragon in Camden Misc. (1855) 40 Three bookes..tyed with grene reabande. 1581in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 344–5 Ribande of silk of sondrye Colours. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. i. 32 Did'st thou not fall out..with another, for tying his new shooes with old Riband? 1870Dickens E. Drood xiii, The housemaids had been bribed with various fragments of riband. γ1784Cowper Task i. 537 In cloak..trimm'd With lace, and hat with splendid ribband bound. 1822J. Imison Sci. & Art II. 100 Any substance, as a piece of ribband. b. With a and pl. α1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 16 Hire robe..of red scarlet engreyned, With ribanes of red golde. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 1318 Many ryban and many frenges Were on her clothes. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 8049 Here hodes dyght with gold ribanes,—Better weres non among the Danes. 1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 325/1 Wrought Silk throwen, Rybens, and Laces falsly..wrought. 1471Exch. Rolls Scot. VIII. 120 Pro..iij unciis de ribbanys. 1520Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 119 To Marjory Conyers a yolow ryban. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. viii. (1703) II. 408 They had marched, from the time they left Oxford, with Orange-Tawny Scarfs and Ribbans. βc1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 792 Hic limbus, a rebant. 1503Cal. Doc. Scot. IV. 346 Garnysshed with ryngs and rebaunds convenable. 1535Coverdale Song. Sol. iv. 3 Thy lippes are like a rose coloured rybende. 1592Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 14 She..returned him a silke Riband for a fauour. 1604Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 79 (Q. 2), A very riband [pr. ribaud] in the cap of youth. c1611Chapman Iliad xxii. 408 Her Coronet, Call, Ribands, Vaile. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 619 The wearing a particular coloured riband upon a certain festival. 1778F. Burney Evelina x, They recommended caps and ribands. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) VII. 40 Whether they might not wear the riband of the medal at the button hole. 1848Layard Nineveh ix. (1850) 218 Ornamented with long ribands or streamers. 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Sh. 1 The wake coiled away like a pale riband. γ1596Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 8 On which this shield..Was hangd on high with golden ribbands laced. 1611Bible Num. xv. 38 Bidde them..that they put vpon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blew. 1643Chas. I Wks. (1662) II. 341 [They] should have been all killed..that had not such a Word or wore not such a Ribband. 1711Steele Spect. No. 4 ⁋5 She has stolen the Colour of her Ribbands from another. 1784Cowper Task iv. 541 Her head, adorn'd with lappets pinn'd aloft, And ribbands streaming gay. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xi, A small scrip, suspended..by a blue silk ribband, hung on her left side. c. = ribbon n. 2.
1766H. Walpole Let. to Sir H. Mann 29 Feb., You have seen this divinity [i.e. the Duke of York], and have prayed to it for a Riband. 2. Her. = ribbon n. 3.
1562Leigh Armorie 110 b, He beareth Or, a Riband, Gueules. This conteineth in bredeth, the eight parte of y⊇ bende, and viii. of these make a bende. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie 12 A Ribande..is of it selfe mettall, and so beyng it is a secret. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry ii. v. (1660) 61. 1727–38 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Bend, A cost, which is the fourth part of a bend; and a ribband, which is the moiety of a cost. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 448/1 Argent, a Ribband Gules. 1868Cussans Her. (1893) 57 The Riband does not extend to the extremities of the shield; its ends being couped, or cut off. 3. †a. St. Johnston's riband, a halter. Sc. Obs.
1774Adamson Muse's Threnodie 119 Hence of Saint Johnston's ribband came the word In such a frequent use, when with a cord They threaten rogues. b. pl. Reins. = ribbon n. 4 b.
1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. St. Odille, If once she contrives To get hold of the ribands. 1857Moncrieff Bashful Man ii. iv, Shouldn't have any objection..to let you handle the ribands for a stage or two. 4. a. A narrow strip of something; an object resembling a ribbon in form; = ribbon n. 5 d.
1801Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 517/2 It is upon this stripe or riband of cotton wool that the operation of spinning begins. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 271 The branchiæ form a single tube or riband. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 223 Upon the narrow riband of ice that bordered the shore. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 21 The long steel tube..is wrapped round and round by a riband of steel. b. pl. Torn strips; shreds, tatters.
1818M. W. Shelley Frankenst. i. (1865) 42 The tree was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to ribands of wood. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xlix, With their clothes hanging in ribands about them. 1865Kingsley Herew. vi, The clouds tore up into ribands. c. spec. (See quot.)
1886Amer. Nat. July 675 Riband, a term applied to the stripes painted on arrow-shafts, generally around the shaftment. These ribands have been called clan-marks,..etc. 5. attrib. and Comb. a. Attrib., in sense ‘made of ribbon, resembling a ribbon’, as riband cockade, riband lace, riband ligature, riband wick.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vii. 37 [They] fasten their sleeues aboue with silk ryband lace of diuers colours. 1793Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 98 A very excellent common lamp, with a riband wick. 1802James Milit. Dict. s.v., The Riband Cockade, which is given to recruits, is commonly called colours. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 104 The history of the broad tape, or riband ligature. b. Misc., as riband-back, riband-like, riband-shaped, riband-wreathed adjs.; riband-maker, riband-manufacturer, riband-weaver.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 10 Golde sheres, keuerchef, launds, and reben makers. 1615Chapman Odyss. iv. 329 Their riband-wreathed wiues brought fruit and cakes. 1722De Foe Plague (1884) 31 Ribband Weavers. 1826Ribband manufacturer [see broad a. 1 c]. 1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 203/2 A strip of continuous riband-shaped membrane. a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. (1849) Ser. ii. 604 We perceived in the water..a sort of riband-like object,..which had the direct form and figure of a snake. 1955R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles vii. 166 Chippendale had good reason for satisfaction. The riband-back chair..notably expressed the style of his Director period. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 238/1 ‘Ribband-back’ chair, a mahogany chair, the splat carved in the form of knotted ribbons and bows in a manner highly expressive of rococo taste. c. Special combs.: riband cane, var. ribbon cane s.v. ribbon n. 10 c; riband coal, conspiracy, cream, -fish, -grass, gurnard, jasper, snail, snake, -stone, wave, weed (see quots. and cf. ribbon n. 9 d, 10).
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 56 Fifth Variety [of coal] from Irwine.., black, presents layers in contrary directions, hence often called *Riband Coal.
1858Illustr. Times 4 Dec. 381 The *Riband conspiracy is extensively revived.
1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 250 To make *Ribband Cream. Take eight quarts of new milk [etc.].
1751Edwards Nat. Hist. IV. 210 The *Ribband Fish. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 224 Red Bandfish, Snakefish, Ribbandfish. 1854Badham Halieut. 232 Leaving the Mackerel family, we come next to that of the Tænioides, or riband-fish.
1793–8Nemnich Polyglot Lex. v. 957 *Ribband grass, arundo picta.
1854Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 101 *Riband-Gurnards (Lepidosomatidæ). Body anguilliform, sword-shaped.
1809Kidd Outl. Min. I. 207 It is called *ribband jasper from the striped disposition of these [colours]. 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. III. xxvi. 93 Some fine pieces of riband jasper, or Egyptian pebbles. 1900E. S. Dana Text-Bk. Min. 327 Striped or riband jasper has the colors in broad stripes.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 192 The horn-coloured, depressed, fasciated cochlea. The Jamaica *Ribband-snail. 1815Burrow Conchol. 204 Helix Zonaria, Ribband Snail.
1791W. Bartram Carolina 271 The *ribband snake is another very beautiful innocent serpent.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 203 *Riband-stone, sandstone in thin layers alternating in colour, generally light and dark grey.
1832J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 142 The *Ribband Wave (Acidalia aversata, Stephens) appears in June, July, and beginning of September.
1866Treas. Bot. 981/2 *Riband-Weed, the common name in some districts of the ordinary form of Laminaria saccharina. ▪ II. ˈriband, v. Now arch. Also 5–9 ribband; and pa. pple. 4 i-rybaunt, 5 ribaned, 6 ribband. [f. the n., or ad. F. rubaner.] trans. To adorn or trim with (or as with) ribands. α1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 13 In Red Scarlet heo Rod I-Rybaunt with gold. c1400Rom. Rose 4752 Ragges, ribaned with gold, to were. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 113, I make hoodes purfyled with silke and ribaned with gold aboute. c1480Henryson Garment of Gude Ladies v, Her gown suld be of gudliness, Weill ribband with renowne. β1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 65 Others by a phantastique kind of ribanding themselvs..do make themselves knowne to have breathed forraine ayre. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 182 A cap, laced and ribanded in all manner of zig-zags. 1837Penny Cycl. IX. 451/1 Species which have..the whorls of the spire flat and ribanded. 1840H. Ainsworth Tower of London 9 A cloak of crimson satin,..ribanded with nets of silver. γ1485Rutland Papers (Camden) 23 A surcote of purpill velwet..ribbanded with gold at the colar, hands, and speris. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, Your mistris appeares..ribbanded with greene and yellow. 1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 46 Now they are..powdered and perfumed and ribbanded and sashed and plumed. 1812Examiner 12 Oct. 652/2 So to ribband, to fur,..and to fringe..men is..degrading their humanity. 1880Gosse in Ward's Eng. Poets II. 126 Ribbanding the may-pole as though it were the cone-tipped rod of Dionysus. Hence ˈribanded ppl. a.
1598Marston Sco. Villanie 167 Castilios,..court-boyes, spanish blocks, Ribanded eares. a1625Fletcher, etc. Fair Maid Inn iii. i, One that..has miraculously purchast a ribanded wastcote. ▪ III. riband variant of ribband n. and v. |