ribbon
noun
a woven strip or band of fine material, as silk or rayon, varying in width and finished off at the edges, used for ornament, tying, etc.
unribboned
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a word derived from
ribbon.
Example Sentences
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While they vowed defiance to Adolf Hitler's minions, capless and unribboned students approached, jeering the Korps, shouting "Heil Hitler!"
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a blue car, a new dress, loose unribboned hair.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
But the superb-eyed only settled himself lower down in his lounging attitude, and slowly withdrawing a small, unpretending, and unribboned glass from his vest pocket, steadily, yet not entirely insultingly, notwithstanding the circumstances, scrutinized Pierre.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
At sight of Vesty with her child and me, Uncle Benny, to whom the shadows were coming as to the truly sane, without grief or surprise, touched his unribboned throat with feeble apology.
From Vesty of the Basins by Sarah P. McLean Greene
On her head was a hat unribboned and broad of brim, in her hand a basket.
From A Transient Guest and Other Episodes by Edgar Saltus
