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ribbon /ˈrɪb(ə)n /noun1A long, narrow strip of fabric, used for tying something or for decoration: the tiny pink ribbons in her hair [mass noun]: four lengths of ribbon...- Her first effort involved a pair of handkerchiefs, a length of pink ribbon and a thread to stitch them together - made simply to free herself from the grip of the corset.
- Selfridges is promising a wrapping service using vintage and recycled ribbons, bows and fabrics.
- Baubles can be painted, stencilled, sprayed, wrapped or decorated with fabric, ribbons, glitter, pearls and beads.
1.1A ribbon of a special colour or design awarded as a prize or worn to indicate the holding of an honour, especially a small multicoloured piece of ribbon worn in place of the medal it represents: his medal ribbons were bright as a rainbow...- Winners will be awarded medals and ribbons with the Special Olympics South Africa logo.
- What is the significance of the ribbons, insignia and medals?
- It is an overwhelming, overflowing kaleidoscope of color, faces, tanned bodies, trophies, medals and ribbons.
1.2 ( ribbons) Prizes; honours: in the Silk Cup trophy class Mullins stayed in the ribbons...- In our amateur classes, we were actually in the ribbons, having our names announced for the first time!
2A long, narrow strip: slice the peppers into ribbons lengthways...- Using a mandoline or a very sharp knife, finely slice carrots lengthways into ribbons.
- An orange ribbon of flame is charring its way across more than 20,000 acres near Los Angeles.
- The A888 is a narrow ribbon of tarmac that curls and loops around the inlets and headlands of the Hebridean island of Barra.
2.1A narrow band of impregnated material wound on a spool and forming the inking agent in some typewriters and computer printers: the notes had been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon...- For example, they are used to provide the black color in inks, pigments, rubber tires, stove polish, typewriter ribbons, and phonograph records.
- In 1888, the typewriter ribbon was patented by Jacob L. Wortman.
- Final reports were prepared on manual typewriters with two-color ribbons so that totals appeared in red.
verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]Extend or move in a long, narrow strip like a ribbon: miles of concrete ribboned behind the bus...- Just when the filigree of family ties here splays open from my blood, ravelling into the mossy veins ribboning along through the dark peat, shadows in another land take form, tugging on my twine of years tangled in that other place.
- Laura Smith's colour-crammed back-projections, with captions ribboning up the side, are now fully-fledged and better-timed.
- But dead ahead, far away across the valley where the ground began to rise sharply again in stands of pine, a narrow white swath of cleared ground ribboned through the dark trees, clearly visible.
Phrases cut a (or the) ribbon cut (or tear) something to ribbons Derivatives ribboned adjective ...- After we left, the newlyweds would slip off to an historic San Antonio hotel, carrying a ribboned picnic basket of champagne and pate and Brie and baguettes.
- It is topped with candied hazelnuts and whole roast almonds, and is beautifully presented in a ribboned package, so it looks very festive, too.
- Maggie dashed off and quickly returned with a ribboned box.
Origin Early 16th century: variant of riband. The French spelling ruban was also frequent in the 16th–18th centuries. Rhymes gibbon |