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rib·and

 (rĭb′ənd)
n.
A ribbon, especially one used as a decoration.

[Middle English, variant of riban; see ribbon.]
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riband

(ˈrɪbənd) or

ribband

n
1. a ribbon, esp one awarded for some achievement. See also blue riband
2. (Building) a flat rail attached to posts in a palisade
[C14: variant of ribbon]
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Noun1.riband - a ribbon used as a decoration
ribbon - notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
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References in classic literature ?
A narrow riband ran along the shore, and sometimes there was a kind of bridge across the stream, formed of old ice and snow.
The Emperor shared in the general satisfaction; and presented the impostors with the riband of an order of knighthood, to be worn in their button-holes, and the title of "Gentlemen Weavers."
At length Hugh, after some elbowing and winking between himself and Mr Dennis, ventured to stay his hand, and to ask him why he meddled with that riband in his hat.
'I'll tie the riband. Now, let us have no petulance.
It curled, a violet riband, through the nacre-coloured air.
Even when the sun shines brilliantly, it seldom touches the grand piano in the recess, or the folio music-books on the stand, or the book-shelves on the wall, or the unfinished picture of a blooming schoolgirl hanging over the chimneypiece; her flowing brown hair tied with a blue riband, and her beauty remarkable for a quite childish, almost babyish, touch of saucy discontent, comically conscious of itself.
"Is that a riband of the child, dangling from the corner of the hill below?" cried Ishmael; "ha!
Then, still keeping his stick in his hand, he sat down; and, opening a double eye-glass, which he wore attached to a broad black riband, took a view of Oliver: who, seeing that he was the object of inspection, coloured, and bowed again.
He had that dull-looking, boiled eye which is often to be seen in the heads of people who have applied themselves during many years to a weary and laborious course of study; and which would have been sufficient, without the additional eyeglass which dangled from a broad black riband round his neck, to warn a stranger that he was very near-sighted.
[Enter LORD CAVERSHAM, an old gentleman of seventy, wearing the riband and star of the Garter.
It had been envisaged that 110 jobs would go at the Fawdon plant with plans to move production of the Blue Riband biscuit to Nestle's factory in Kargowa, Poland.
The company has confirmed that switch of production but has now said that 73 jobs will go at Fawdon, with the loss of the Blue Riband being partly mitigated by new work to produce mini eggs for the Milkybar and Smarties brands.