Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wearing of a blue ribbon as a badge of adherence to total-abstinence principles; total abstinence.
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It might be that to some minds -- certainly to that of the black sheep -- visions of violated blue-ribbonism occurred.
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure 1859
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