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  • adjective having white ribs

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Examples

  • So Mr. Cetra designed the series of white-ribbed boxes, which hovered over the Wendy's building until the property was finally turned into part of One Madison Park's base.

    Skyscraper Face-Off in Madison Square 2010

  • Seven white-ribbed boxes, four to six floors tall and 9 feet deep, wrap around the north and east facades of the new apartment tower by the southeast corner of Madison Square Park.

    Skyscraper Face-Off in Madison Square 2010

  • He wears a spotless white shirt, the old-fashioned, collarless kind, open at the neck and showing a white-ribbed undershirt.

    There is no such thing as a bullfight 2004

  • He wears a spotless white shirt, the old-fashioned, collarless kind, open at the neck and showing a white-ribbed undershirt.

    There is no such thing as a bullfight 2004

  • And the white-ribbed waves on the granite shore moan and sob in their pain.

    England over Seas Lloyd Roberts

  • Behind her, in the far distance, lay the white-ribbed downs, and, along their ridge, there stretched against the sky a thin, shadowy, broken line.

    "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

  • The iconography of Las agallas ( "The Courageous") is more mysterious: a white-ribbed, thin-legged figure with a halo above his head stands over what seems to be the head of a bird; the triangular border comes to a point over his head and halo, focusing on his vision by walling it off from the white paper around it.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The iconography of Las agallas ( "The Courageous") is more mysterious: a white-ribbed, thin-legged figure with a halo above his head stands over what seems to be the head of a bird; the triangular border comes to a point over his head and halo, focusing on his vision by walling it off from the white paper around it.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • "The Cauliflower has generally a short stalk, and white-ribbed, oblong leaves.

    The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

  • I came out and took another look at the big, black exterior, buttressed with white-ribbed towers, and perceived that a desperate sketcher might extract a picture from it, especially if he were to bring in, as they say, the little black bronze statue of the good King René (a weak production of

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

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