beribboned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beribboned
Example Sentences
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Christmas is a feeling inside, not something in a beribboned box.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021
In the mid-1700s, Madame de Pompadour rendered a more confectionary pink the height of fashion: In the portraits of François Boucher, she models a succession of sassily beribboned shell-pink gowns and negligees.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2018
The 1969 movie “Z,” about a failed Greek military plot, ends memorably with a sequence of beribboned officials called before a Mueller-like prosecutor to hear their indictments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2017
Jason awkwardly leaves, but first hands Alicia a small, beribboned gold box.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2016
The man wore a gun in a leather holster and a beribboned uniform.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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