riband
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]riband (countable and uncountable, plural ribands)
- Archaic form of ribbon.
- 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 273–274:
- There was every reason to spare the disclosure, for a new blue satin pelisse, a bonnet trimmed with ribands a mile high, and a fresh detachment of flowing curls, proclaimed the bridal attire.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 573:
- Riband and fringe are often bought by the ounce.
- (heraldry) A narrow diminutive of the bend, thinner than a bendlet.