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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rubennier, a ribbon maker, head-band maker.

1656 Wit & Drollery 111 You that are Ribbonsellers too, Your broken trades may patch.

1738 J. Munn Observ. Brit. Wool 14/3 (table) Ribbon-maker for Tillets, &c.

1799 Times 1 June 2/1 The Bill for Regulating the Wages of Ribbon Manufacturers, in Coventry.

1883 M. Blind Life George Eliot iii. 26 Mr. Bray was a wealthy ribbon manufacturer.

1894 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 19 July (heading) A ribbon threader.

1940 Chicago Defender 22 June 10/1 She's only a ten cent ribbon seller in a two-bit store.

1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 318 The ribbon threader, a round-ended, tapering rod, nearly 1 ft. long, with a large eye at the narrow end, was once a commonplace implement.

1973 M. Laski George Eliot 23 Mr Pears was a ribbon manufacturer.

2002 Alameda (Calif.) Times-Star (Nexis) 17 Dec. Christmas shoppers will spend more than $20 million..on the ribbon used to decorate gifts... That's enough ribbon, say the ribbon makers, to encircle the Earth 100 times.