ribbands

• “Wud yoo liek wun ob dees flowti bloons wif sparkloly ribbands.”

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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

• “A dealer also in stockings, ribbands, snuff, and perfumes.”

  Clarissa Harlowe

• “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.”

  The Vicar of Wakefield

• “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.”

  The Vicar of Wakefield

• “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.”

  The Vicar of Wakefield

• “Sir Simon promiseth her a new paire of shoes, garters, ribbands, girdles, or what else she would request.”

  The Decameron

• “It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbands of wood.”

  Simon & Schuster: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

• “Rubenius shewed my father how well they all fitted, — in what manner they laced on, — with what points, straps, thongs, latchets, ribbands, jaggs, and ends. — — But I want to be informed about the breeches, said my father.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Our gunwales had been torn away, our single sail had been rent to ribbands, and borne down the stream of the wind.”

  The Last Man

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