Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A striped or ornamented border.
  • noun An ornament made of ribbon.

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  • verb Present participle of ribbon.

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Examples

  • With a curse the man jerked his leg clear, Michael's teeth ribboning flesh and trousers.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • Isn't it better to just stir the liquid with the dry instead of the ribboning in Alton's recipe .. way less deflation!

    The Cake Slice presents: Triple Lemon Chiffon Cake 2009

  • In the Sunday Herald newsroom Siobhan, too, was sitting at her computer, fingers flying across the keyboard, words ribboning out across the screen.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • There was a stream of liquid ribboning through the air and landing on his gas tank.

    The Riddle of Steel Jason W. Stuart 2011

  • The sun was warm on my skin and the breeze cool, ribboning my hair across my eyes.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • The sun was warm on my skin and the breeze cool, ribboning my hair across my eyes.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • The lower-topsail, its sheets parted by the fall of the crojack-yard, was tearing out of the bolt-ropes and ribboning away to leeward and making such an uproar that they might well expect its yard to carry away.

    CHAPTER XLVI 2010

  • My eyes scanned the gentle roll of the moor, the slant of hill sometimes broken in this area by a misty braille of hillocks and tussocks where boulders had been abandoned by glaciers long ago, and seasonal streams cut away at the softer sections, ribboning brown veins through the short yellowed grass.

    Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011

  • My eyes scanned the gentle roll of the moor, the slant of hill sometimes broken in this area by a misty braille of hillocks and tussocks where boulders had been abandoned by glaciers long ago, and seasonal streams cut away at the softer sections, ribboning brown veins through the short yellowed grass.

    Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011

  • The sun was warm on my skin and the breeze cool, ribboning my hair across my eyes.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

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