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- adjective Like
ribbon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective long and thin; resembling a ribbon
Etymologies
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Examples
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I asked if you can turn that ribbony thing off or put it on the side.
First Look At The More Mac-Like Microsoft Office 2011 Beta | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Though he had not yet broadcast a game from the stadium, he had done several off the Western Union ticker tape, sitting in a studio hundreds of miles from the action and translating the thin code of the relay, fleshing it out from the long, ribbony scorecard.
Style in Fiction 2009
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I asked if you can turn that ribbony thing off or put it on the side.
First Look At The More Mac-Like Microsoft Office 2011 Beta | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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And they do look rather authentic, spoofily constructed with fliptop box, cellophane wrap, gold ribbony bit and that traditional insert of matt foil that thumbs away to reveal ... well, not 20 Marlboro, or whatever, but a dinky book you might read in a crowded lift.
June 2007 2007
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Fairies and sprites who looked just like Sammy, with his fine strawberry hair, long ribbony limbs and round blue eyes.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Fairies and sprites who looked just like Sammy, with his fine strawberry hair, long ribbony limbs and round blue eyes.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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A ribbony infrastructure coiling and recoiling around the city, spiraling around tower blocks and zigzagging down skyscrapers; an eco-progeny of Brutalist skyways, skybridges and skywalks.
Ur-wetlands 2009
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And they do look rather authentic, spoofily constructed with fliptop box, cellophane wrap, gold ribbony bit and that traditional insert of matt foil that thumbs away to reveal ... well, not 20 Marlboro, or whatever, but a dinky book you might read in a crowded lift.
Harr/Tharr 2007
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A ribbony infrastructure coiling and recoiling around the city, spiraling around tower blocks and zigzagging down skyscrapers; an eco-progeny of Brutalist skyways, skybridges and skywalks.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Fairies and sprites who looked just like Sammy, with his fine strawberry hair, long ribbony limbs and round blue eyes.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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