Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
ribbon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
ribbon .
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- noun Obsolete form of
ribbon .
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Examples
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I have but one starr and no riban, but 'tis no great matter for that, a better man than I is in the same case; he has only one scrub, one which he got made since he came, and no right riban.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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I believe ther's neither of that kind of blew nor green riban to be got at Edinburgh; but if you could get some tolorablie like it, you send some of both.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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