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单词 to ribands
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to ribands
P3. to ribands: to torn strips suggestive of ribands (see to ribbons at ribbon n. Phrases 2). Also figurative. Now rare and archaic.
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1813 Amer. Mercury (New-London, Connectitut) 20 Jan. 2/2 Not a stitch of sail but her foresail and that shot to ribbands.
1871 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry (new ed.) 1 I rode a race against Bob Dashwood..and beat him all to ribands.
1910 S. Leacock in Univ. Mag. (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 Sweeney Todd viii. 63 I tore his clothes to ribands.
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