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- noun Plural form of
ribband .
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Examples
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It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbands of wood.
Chapter 1 2010
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Wud yoo liek wun ob dees flowti bloons wif sparkloly ribbands.
I was - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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She was loaded with lilac plumes, ribbands, and gauzes, and Camilla saw her bed completely covered with her new ball dress.
Camilla 2008
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A dealer also in stockings, ribbands, snuff, and perfumes.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Sir Simon promiseth her a new paire of shoes, garters, ribbands, girdles, or what else she would request.
The Decameron 2004
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It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbands of wood.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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A suit of mourning has transformed my coquet into a prude, and a new set of ribbands has given her younger sister more than natural vivacity.
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It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbands of wood.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut; my wife herself retained a passion for her crimson paduasoy, because I formerly happened to say it became her.
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My only dislike arose from an attachment he discovered to my daughter: he would, in a jesting manner, call her his little mistress, and when he bought each of the girls a set of ribbands, hers was the finest.
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