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An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest swelling beneath a row of ribbands, came up attended by his wife, sister, father-in-law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those little new-invented things— Cups, saddles, crowns, are childish joys, So ribbands are and rings, Which all our happiness destroys.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Their dress was exactly the same: white jackets and petticoats, with light green ribbands, &c.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
Sam Stoutenburgh was a little shamefaced in broad daylight—a little afraid of being laughed at; and Reuben Taylor, the head of the blue ribbands, was under a very unwonted cloud.
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan
There was a multitude of servants in garments of white and blue, marching; they led tame tigers and panthers upon ribbands of red.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)
