1795 Let. 3 Feb. in III. i. App. 2 The sails torn into ribbands, and her hull much shattered,..she floated into Brest.
1841 C. Dickens xlix. 220 With their clothes hanging in ribands about them.
1915 W. S. Maugham xcvii. 604 The basin and the ewer had been smashed, the looking-glass was in fragments, and the sheets were in ribands.