Definition of Ribbon

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Ribbon

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

Same as Rib-band.

Driving reins.

A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

A silver.

To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

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Ribbon Quotations

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
Jim Carrey

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Dennis Rodman

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.
Lynn Abbey

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
Howard Dean

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
Billy Carter

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Anzia Yezierska

He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed.
T. E. Kalem

Ribbon Translations

ribbon in Dutch is band, lint
ribbon in French is ruban
ribbon in German is Band, Farbband
ribbon in Italian is fettuccia
ribbon in Portuguese is fita
ribbon in Spanish is cinta
ribbon in Swedish is remsa

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