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ribandn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French ribane, riban. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ribane and Middle French riban, reban, earlier ruban (13th cent. in Old French: see ruban n.), of uncertain and disputed origin; in spite of the chronology of the attestations, the form riban may well have been the original form; the word may perhaps ultimately show a borrowing from a Germanic language of a compound of the cognates of ring n.1 and band n.1 (perhaps compare Dutch ringband collar for a dog). Compare post-classical Latin ribanum (1340, 1371 in British sources), ribandum (1508 in a British source).For all spellings with o in the second syllable see ribbon n. For all spellings with u in the first syllable see ruban n. Compare also ribbin n. The following additional forms are found in multilingual documents from the 14th and 15th centuries, and could show either the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word: ribayn , ribawn , rybaun . The vowel of the unstressed or lightly stressed second syllable was probably reduced early (exceptions probably being shown by early forms such as rebayn and rybane ), hence the spellings with e or i in the second syllable. The spellings with o given at ribbon n. probably have the same origin. The β. and γ. forms show an excrescent final dental consonant (compare forms at chamberlain n., and also pound v.1, resound v.1, sound n.3, Mahound n.); a connection with French regional derivative forms such as ribandeau or ribandelle is very unlikely. Now chiefly archaic or regional. 1. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > ribbon the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > of specific size > narrow > ribbon α. ?c1325 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) II. 19 (MED) I met..a may..A red hod on hir heved..With a riche riban, gold be-gon. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Song of Sol. i. 10 Goldene ribanes [a1425 L.V. ournementis; L. murenulas] wee shul maken to þee. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. ii. 16 Hire robe..of red scarlet engreyned, With ribanes of red golde. 1455–6 (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1455 §55. m. 2 Divers lombardes..bring nowe daily into þis lande wrought silk, throwen rybens, and laces. 1520 in J. Raine (1884) V. 119 To Marjory Conyers a yolow ryban. 1593 G. Peele sig. B3 The King..found on the ground by Fortune as he went A Ladies Garter... It was a silken Ribban weaued of blewe. 1623 Edinb. Test. LI. f. 320v, in at Ribban Nyne bowt..clinkard ribenes. 1650 T. Bayly 22 At the last I spide a young man, who had a ribbin in his hat. 1664 H. Power i. 46 In the Silk Ribbans, you might plainly see the Contexture. 1701 W. Burnaby i. 5 She's always longing for something that is dear;..Silks, Ribbans, Fanns, [etc.]. 1790 A. Wheeler i. 26 Leak atth Men haw they er dond, they er as fine as Lasses, leak what fine Ribans rawnd thar Hats, [etc.]. 1801 H. Macneill II. 62 Ribbans, and perlins, and breast-knots enew. 1844 M. B. Howitt (1845) xvi. 173 Processions bearing garlands, and decorated with ribans, were parading the streets. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > ribbon > collectively α. 1393 in L. T. Smith (1894) 285 (MED) Pro reban aureo pro domino. 1411 2: 2 li Ryban et ffrenges.] 1415 in F. A. Page-Turner (1914) 24 (MED) iiij costers..striped wt plonket ribain. 1463–4 in (1841) 238 (MED) For a gyrdyll off reban, ij s. 1520 (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd for reban to mend ij vestmentis. 1525 (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/21) f. 298 Ryban of silk. 1545 in J. Raine (1859) 136 For sylke rybben, 16s. 1611 in H. Paton (1904) 67 iij yards of ribin to the hosekinnes. 1700 in W. Macgill (1909) I. 144 Blak ribin. 1712 R. Steele No. 478. ⁋7 Bows of Riban. 1730 J. Thomson Epil. sig. L3 One yard of Ribban, and two ells of Gause. society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > insignia of order 1625 tr. G. de la Vega in S. Purchas IV. vii. xii. 1457 Hee ware on his head as a Diadem or royall ensigne a kinde of Ribben of many colours, which compassed his head foure or fiue times. 1672 E. Ashmole vi. 192 It was the general practice..to present the Elect-Knight in confirmation of his Election..with the Garter, George, Ribband, and sometimes a Saint George's Cross. 1755 B. Martin iii. i. 308 Near the Figure of Briannia is placed a Cornucopia,..the Workmanship of which is excellent, as is that of the Ribband, Star and Armes of Sir Peter. 1766 H. Walpole Let. 29 Feb. in (1843) I. 280 You have seen this divinity [i.e. the Duke of York], and have prayed to it for a riband. 1810 Duke of Wellington (1837) VII. 40 Whether they might not wear the riband of the medal at the button hole. 1834 J. R. Planché (1846) xviii. 277 The riband..to which the lesser George, or medal, was appended round the neck, was during this reign [sc. of James I] changed from black to blue. 1854 R. Montgomery 535 The riband, star, and coronet With mingled radiance in one warrior met. 1937 R. M. French tr. N. Berdyaev vii. 213 The bishops..became civil servants, governors, the recipients of stars and ribands, and drove in their carriages. 1978 P. Turnbull (2005) 38/1 (caption) Sacred Heart... Black backing, red and yellow riband, red patch with scalloped edges, [etc.]. 1988 (Nexis) 30 Oct. He [sc. a horse] will be flat out winning a riband at the Melbourne Show let alone a Melbourne Cup. 2008 (Nexis) 23 May (Pasa Tiempo section) 40 Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary..draped themselves on state occasions with the works: glittering tiaras,..massive diamond brooches, jeweled orders of chivalry on bright ribands, [etc.]. society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > ribbon 1562 G. Legh 110 b He beareth Or, a Riband, Gueules. This conteineth in bredeth, the eight parte of ye bende, and viii. of these make a bende. 1572 J. Bossewell 12 A Ribande..is of it selfe mettall, and so beyng it is a secret. 1610 J. Guillim ii. v. 51 A Riband..is that other Subdiuision..deriued from a Bend, and doth containe the eighth part thereof. 1680 G. Mackenzie xxiv. 81 A Lyon Rampant gules, surmounted of a Ribband Bend-wise sable. 1738 E. Chambers (ed. 2) at Bend A cost, which is the fourth part of a bend; and a ribband, which is the moiety of a cost. 1797 VIII. 448/1 Argent, a Ribband Gules. 1866 J. E. Cussans 14 The riband is a cost couped, or cut off, at the ends, so that they do not extend to the edges of the shield. 1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson iv. 59 A riband, which is one-eighth of the width of a bend. 3. the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece 1766 tr. C. Bonnet II. x. vii. 134 By the side of this ribband the insect spins a second. 1801 Suppl. II. 517/2 It is upon this stripe or riband of cotton wool that the operation of spinning begins. 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier (abridged ed.) 271 The branchiæ form a single tube or riband. 1837 W. Irving II. 223 Upon the narrow riband of ice that bordered the shore. 1890 W. J. Gordon 21 The long steel tube..is wrapped round and round by a riband of steel. 1917 M. Webb iii. 72 In summer, the Pedlar's-basket—a saxifrage—shows her gay wares and ribands of red stalk. 2008 (Nexis) 16 Mar. d3 I spent a morning last week counting [yellow perch] eggs... The opaque, foot-long ribands are not easy to spot in high, murky water. 1886 20 675 Riband, a term applied to the stripes painted on arrow-shafts, generally around the shaftment. These ribands have been called clan-marks. 1901 3 431 The colored markings on the shaftment (the riband) are in red and black. 2002 N. D. Justice 386/1 Riband markings are painted in red, black, and white markings. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > reins 1815 24 July 3/5 (advt.) One of the lads of the whip..has obtained a sixteenth of the twenty thousand prize... This will enable him to..handle the ribbands with spirit. 1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Odille in 1st Ser. 258 If once she contrives To get hold of the ribands. 1857 W. T. Moncrieff ii. iv Shouldn't have any objection..to let you handle the ribands for a stage or two. 1909 J. C. Snaith vii. 84 Caroline will lead him a dance though... And I know how to handle the ribands better than he does. Phrases1795 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. 1813 20 Jan. 2/2 Not a stitch of sail but her foresail and that shot to ribbands. 1871 G. J. Whyte-Melville (new ed.) 1 I rode a race against Bob Dashwood..and beat him all to ribands. 1910 S. Leacock in (McGill Univ.) Dec. 620 We do not..flog to ribbands the bleeding back of the malefactor dragged at the cart's tail through the thoroughfares of a crowded city. 2007 R. Mack viii. 63 I tore his clothes to ribands. Compounds C1. 1407–8 in W. H. Stevenson (1883) II. 52 (MED) Pro uno riben frenge de cirico, xvij d. 1580 Inventory Eliz. Taverner in (1991) 8 83 Item 7 riband girdles..and 2 girdles of bugle. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay ii. vii. 37 [They] fasten their sleeues aboue with silk ryband lace of diuers colours. c1665 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney (1907) II. 275 Ribband knots for her head of sky collor, or yallow. 1696 No. 3234/4 A red Riband Stomacher. 1793 (Royal Soc.) 84 98 A very excellent common lamp, with a riband wick. 1802 C. James (at cited word) The Riband Cockade, which is given to recruits, is commonly called colours. 1819 S. Cooper (ed. 4) I. i. xiii. 140 The history of the broad tape, or ribband ligature. 1833 T. Carlyle in Aug. 139/1 She also was made a Mason..and had a riband-garter solemnly bound on, with order to sleep in it for a night. a1907 F. Thompson (1913) II. 220 Down dropped her riband-band, and all her waving hair Shook..to her waist. 2006 (Nexis) 19 Jan. It [sc. a medal] is virtually intact as issued, with its watch-type convex glasses, with original suspension, ribbon and gold riband buckle. b. Objective. ?1518 sig. B.vjv Golde sheres, keuerchef launds, and reben makers. 1698 E. Settle 97 Pray let the Vanityshops the Embroiderer, the Laceman, the Featherman, the Ribband-Weaver, cum multis aliis come in for a snack. 1722 D. Defoe 23 Ribband Weavers. 1795 in (1796) 30 The undersigned riband manufacturers of Leek, having made repeated trials of the East-India Company's Bengal organzine, are of the opinion that it has been of great service. 1826 59/1 The throwsters, the broad trade manufacturers, and the dyers admitted their superiority..But the ribband manufacturers, [etc.]. 1867 Oct. 418/2 Human excellence in the matter of dress had reached such a pitch of perfection, that the exhibiting tailors and hosiers,..riband-makers, corset-makers,..&c. were entitled to the entire hundred [medals]. 1994 R. Sales (1996) 59 [She] noted that the milliners had got ‘Regency caps and gowns’, while the riband weavers were producing other Regency emblems. 1727 18 Sept. 3/2 His Father also taught him his own Employment of Ribband-weaving. 1756 20 Oct. 346/1 I live in Bishopsgate-Street, and work in the loom at ribband making. 1811 Dec. 527/1 A comparatively short time occupied in ribband-winding. 1830 Oct. 547 The arts of riband-weaving, straw-platting, dyeing, and cotton-spinning were introduced with the comforts and refinements of civilization. 1913 J. J. Webb 175 Amongst others velvet and ribband making disappeared. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer iv. 63 Their Riband-wreathed wiues, brought fruit and cakes. 1822 J. Hughes x. 234 A narrow riband-shaped line of rich cultivated ground of a few yards in breadth. 1908 T. Hardy iv. i. 128 Certain strange dark patches in the landscape, flexuous and riband-shaped, are discerned to be moving slowly. C2. 1754 T. Chippendale 8 Three Ribband-back Chairs, which, if I may speak without vanity, are the best I have ever seen. 1896 11 Mar. 11/5 A set of six large Chippendale mahogany chairs, with open scroll and riband backs carved with foliage and shell ornament. 1960 H. Hayward 238/1 ‘Ribband-back’ chair, a mahogany chair, the splat carved in the form of knotted ribbons and bows in a manner highly expressive of rococo taste. 2008 Spring 41 (caption) Chair with chinoiserie fret front legs and stretcher and Rococo ‘ribband’ back, c1760, private collection. 1835 3rd Rep. Select Comm. Orange Lodges Ireland 87 in (H.C. 476) XVI. 1 Did you never read a trial in which Mr. Plunket, now Lord Plunket, described the Riband conspiracy? 1882 4 Feb. 519/1 Having resolved to renounce the riband conspiracy and fearing for his life should his purpose become known, he had fled the country and made his way to England. 1769 E. Raffald x. 229 To make Ribband Cream. Take eight Quarts of new Milk,..put in a Quart of good Cream,... Let it stand all Night, then..lay it on a Sieve to drain, cut it to the Size of your Glasses, and lay red, green, or coloured Sweet-meats between every Layer of Cream. 1927 T. Chambers Let. 2 Nov. in 17 300/1 If ‘riband’ development—i.e., the erection of strings of houses along our main roads—is not checked, we shall soon see nothing of the beauty of the adjacent country. 1990 G. Poiner i. 5 The nineteenth- and most early twentieth-century buildings are dotted along the roadside in a modest riband development. C3. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > plants yielding sugar or syrup > [noun] > sugar-cane 1811 G. Mathison 65 The riband or striped cane is no longer cultivated by judicious planters. 1836 D. B. Edward ii. 43 The species called the violet, would have the advantage of the riband cane, by coming to maturity in case of frost. 1886 Mar. 343/2 During Monroe's administration, the East India cane, called the riband cane, was brought from Georgia. 1796 R. Kirwan (ed. 2) II. 56 Fifth Variety [of coal] from Irwine.., black, presents layers in contrary directions, hence often called Riband Coal. 1861 E. Hull (ed. 2) ii. ii. 81/2 (table) Riband-coal. the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Lampridiformes > member of genus Cepola (ribbon-fish) the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > order Lampridiformes > member of family Regalecidae (oar-fish) 1751 G. Edwards IV. 210 The Ribband Fish..hath two..black or dusky Lists bordered with White..which makes the Fish appear as if it were bound with Ribbands. 1881 13 196 In shape, [fish of the family Trachypteridae] are usually long, deep, and very much compressed and flattened on the sides, so much so that their local appellations always embody some idea of these peculiarities—such as ribband-fish, lath or deal fish, [etc.]. 1996 50 182 Theobold..gave or lent him [sc. Edwards] specimens for these works:..the ‘Ribband-Fish’ from the West Indies..figured in the Natural History of Birds. ?1798 P. A. Nemnich vi. 957 Ribband grass, arundo picta. 1847 A. Pratt (ed. 3) v. 72 This may be seen in the Phalaris arundinacea, or Riband grass; a plant sometimes cultivated in our gardens. 1905 J. W. Tutt I. 49 In confinement, riband-grass forms a useful substitute for the finer grasses. 1839 W. Swainson II. ii. ii. 261 Lepidolepridæ. Riband Gurnards. 1854 A. Adams et al. 101 Riband-Gurnards (Lepidosomatidæ). Body anguilliform, sword-shaped. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > jasper > other varieties the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > cryptocrystalline quartz > chert > jasper 1790 (Leverian Mus.) 69 Striped red and green, or ribband Jasper, from Catharinenberg, in Siberia. 1823 tr. A. von Humboldt 280 Fine pieces of ribband-jasper or Egyptian pebbles are dispersed on the surface of the soil. 1956 Dec. p. vii/2 (advt.) A Fabergé riband jasper squirrel, an agate elephant, and other hardstone animals. the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Anguidae > member of 1791 W. Bartram 271 The ribband snake is another very beautiful innocent serpent. 1853 in R. B. Marcy (1854) 205 This genus [sc. Eutaenia] is composed of numerous species, some of them quite common, and known under the names of Riband, Striped, and Garter snakes. 1915 E. D. Cope in 67 148 In the water the only snake which includes insects in its diet to any extent is the southern riband snake. 1752 J. Hill III. 192 The horn-coloured, depressed, fasciated cochlea. The Jamaica Ribband-snail. 1815 E. J. Burrow 204 Helix Zonaria, Ribband Snail. 1863 N. I. Lucas 235/1 Riband-stone. 1883 W. S. Gresley 203 Riband-stone, sandstone in thin layers alternating in colour, generally light and dark grey. 1809 A. H. Haworth ii. 349 The ribband Wave. 1832 J. Rennie 142 The Ribband Wave (A. aversata, Stephens) appears in June, July, and beginning of September. 1905 38 10 I remember meeting with a full-grown caterpillar of the common ‘riband wave’ (Ptychopoda aversata) crawling on a tree-trunk in Epping Forest. 1984 B. Skinner 14/1 Riband Wave Idaea aversata Linnaeus... The plain form, ab. remutata.., occurs as commonly as the banded typical form. 1821 S. F. Gray I. 383 Ribband-weed. 1836 Suppl. May 211/1 The encouragement given of late years to the making of beds and mattresses from one of the Ulvæ, commonly known as the riband-weed, is also likely to be an incitement to their industry. 1914 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy xv. 253 There is no refuge here, except a little riband-weed, which is as useless for shelter as it is for holding food. Derivatives 1777 J. Lightfoot II. 968 It [sc. the leaf] often varies into a long riband like form. 1814 tr. G. H. von Langsdorff II. vi. 147 We perceived, in the water near the ship, a sort of ribband-like object,..which had the direct form and figure of a snake. 1895 10 Sept. 8/5 Bunches of thin riband-like lightning darted from the luminous mist. 1994 M. J. Crowe xxv. 208 Rather than a 'spiral',..the new design resembled a bent and broken ring, with long, riband-like ends, looped back on either side of an opening. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). ribandv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion; perhaps modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: riband n. Etymology: < riband n., perhaps after Middle French rubanner, rubaner (1349; in 15th cent. also rubander; French rubaner ). Compare later ribbon v. Now archaic and rare. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > trim > with ribbon or braid α. 1386–7 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 14th Rep.: App. Pt. VIII: MSS Lincoln, Bury St. Edmund's, & Great Grimsby Corporations (1895) 129 in (C. 7881) LVIII. 465 ij pilweres rebaned. c1400 (a1376) W. Langland (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ii. l. 13 (MED) I..was war of a womman wonderliche cloþide..In red scarlet robid & ribande [c1390 Vernon IRybaunt, a1425 Linc. Inn rebended, a1425 Univ. Oxf. rybanyd, c1425 Liverpool Univ. Rebaned, a1475 Ashm. rebaund; a1450 Rawl. 137 rebaynyd aboute] wiþ gold. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4752 A slowe may not forbere Ragges Ribaned with gold to were [Fr. C'est taigne qui riens ne refuse, Les porpres et les buriaus use]. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville (Cambr.) (1869) 113 (MED) I make hoodes purfyled with silk and ribaned with gold aboute. c1470 tr. (Cleveland) (1977) 81 (MED) Tofore that sate Cayphas..about his body a riche mantel of cloth of gold, riband by al þe bordirs ful richely of perree. a1505 R. Henryson Garmont Gud Ladeis 18 in (1981) 162 Hir gown suld be of gudlines, Weill ribband with renowne. 1644 Edinb. Test. LX. f. 376v, in at Ribbanit Four pair of lining bed scheittis quhairoff ane are ribbaned. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu 22 Aug. (1965) I. 255 Like a poor Town Lady of Pleasure, painted and riban'd out in her Head dress. Derivatives the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [adjective] > ribbon > ornamented with 1598 J. Marston In Lectores sig. Bv Castilios,..court-boyes, spanish blocks, Ribanded eares. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Fffffff/2 One that..has miraculously purchast a ribanded wastcote. 1777 in J. Wilkes I. 34 The ribbanded and titled slaves of power. 1856 Jan. 37/1 A maid, with a ribanded baby in white, appeared at an upper window. 1981 19 266 A ribanded wreath surrounding a text so miniature as to virtually require a magnifying glass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?c1325 v.1386 |
