beribboned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beribboned
Example Sentences
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In a gallery that suggests a pre-revolutionary French sitting room, we are greeted by a portrait of Marie Rinteau, the great-grandmother of George Sand, seated at her dressing table, as painted by François Hubert Drouais in 1761; her forearms emerge from beribboned froths of lace and a separate lace collar slightly obscures her décolletage.
From New York Times
And they come beribboned and frilled.
From New York Times
Christmas is a feeling inside, not something in a beribboned box.
From Washington Post
She wore a beribboned straw hat, a kinetically patterned black-and-bone colored dress, and block heel spectator pumps.
From New York Times
In beribboned suits, three members of the Young Men Olympians Benevolent Association, one of the oldest and most prominent clubs, display second-line stepping — a New Orleans tradition, in which brass bands are followed by dancing club members and fans, exuberant even during funerals:
From New York Times
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