▪ I. riband, n. Now arch.
(ˈrɪbənd)
Forms: α. 4–6 ryban (5 -anne), reban (6 -en), 4–7 riban, 5, 7 ribban; 4–5 ribane, 5 ry-, rebane, rebayn; 5, 7 riben. β. 5–6 ryband, 6 re-, 6– riband; 6 ri-, ry-, reabande; 5 ribawnde, 6 rebaund; 5 re-, 6 rybende. γ. 6–9 ribband. See also ribbon and ruban.
[a. OF. riban, ruban (13th cent.), of obscure origin: possibly a Teutonic compound of which the second element is band.]
1. = ribbon n. 1. a. Without article.
| α 139. Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 285 Pro reban aureo pro domino. 1411 Close Roll 13 Hen. IV, 2 li. Ryban et Frenges. 1463 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 238 For a gyrdyll off reban, ij.s. 1520 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Payd for reban to mend ij vestmentis. 1525 Will of J. Williams (Somerset Ho.), Ryban of silk. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 478 ¶7 Bows of Riban. |
| β c 1440 Promp. Parv. 432/2 Ryband, of a clothe (K. ribawnde or liour..), limbus. 1477–9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 80 Rebende of diuerse colowris, iiij s. 1534 Inv. Wardr. Kath. Arragon in Camden Misc. (1855) 40 Three bookes..tyed with grene reabande. 1581 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 344–5 Ribande of silk of sondrye Colours. 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. i. 32 Did'st thou not fall out..with another, for tying his new shooes with old Riband? 1870 Dickens E. Drood xiii, The housemaids had been bribed with various fragments of riband. |
| γ 1784 Cowper Task i. 537 In cloak..trimm'd With lace, and hat with splendid ribband bound. 1822 J. Imison Sci. & Art II. 100 Any substance, as a piece of ribband. |
b. With
a and
pl.| α 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 16 Hire robe..of red scarlet engreyned, With ribanes of red golde. c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame 1318 Many ryban and many frenges Were on her clothes. c 1400 Laud Troy Bk. 8049 Here hodes dyght with gold ribanes,—Better weres non among the Danes. 1455 Rolls of Parlt. V. 325/1 Wrought Silk throwen, Rybens, and Laces falsly..wrought. 1471 Exch. Rolls Scot. VIII. 120 Pro..iij unciis de ribbanys. 1520 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 119 To Marjory Conyers a yolow ryban. a 1674 Clarendon Hist. Reb. viii. (1703) II. 408 They had marched, from the time they left Oxford, with Orange-Tawny Scarfs and Ribbans. |
| β c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 792 Hic limbus, a rebant. 1503 Cal. Doc. Scot. IV. 346 Garnysshed with ryngs and rebaunds convenable. 1535 Coverdale Song. Sol. iv. 3 Thy lippes are like a rose coloured rybende. 1592 Greene Groat's W. Wit (1617) 14 She..returned him a silke Riband for a fauour. 1604 Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 79 (Q. 2), A very riband [pr. ribaud] in the cap of youth. c 1611 Chapman Iliad xxii. 408 Her Coronet, Call, Ribands, Vaile. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 619 The wearing a particular coloured riband upon a certain festival. 1778 F. Burney Evelina x, They recommended caps and ribands. 1810 Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) VII. 40 Whether they might not wear the riband of the medal at the button hole. 1848 Layard Nineveh ix. (1850) 218 Ornamented with long ribands or streamers. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Sh. 1 The wake coiled away like a pale riband. |
| γ 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. x. 8 On which this shield..Was hangd on high with golden ribbands laced. 1611 Bible Num. xv. 38 Bidde them..that they put vpon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blew. 1643 Chas. I Wks. (1662) II. 341 [They] should have been all killed..that had not such a Word or wore not such a Ribband. 1711 Steele Spect. No. 4 ¶5 She has stolen the Colour of her Ribbands from another. 1784 Cowper Task iv. 541 Her head, adorn'd with lappets pinn'd aloft, And ribbands streaming gay. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xi, A small scrip, suspended..by a blue silk ribband, hung on her left side. |
c. = ribbon n. 2.
| 1766 H. Walpole Let. to Sir H. Mann 29 Feb., You have seen this divinity [i.e. the Duke of York], and have prayed to it for a Riband. |
2. Her. = ribbon n. 3.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie 110 b, He beareth Or, a Riband, Gueules. This conteineth in bredeth, the eight parte of y⊇ bende, and viii. of these make a bende. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie 12 A Ribande..is of it selfe mettall, and so beyng it is a secret. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. v. (1660) 61. 1727–38 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Bend, A cost, which is the fourth part of a bend; and a ribband, which is the moiety of a cost. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 448/1 Argent, a Ribband Gules. 1868 Cussans Her. (1893) 57 The Riband does not extend to the extremities of the shield; its ends being couped, or cut off. |
3. † a. St. Johnston's riband, a halter.
Sc. Obs.| 1774 Adamson Muse's Threnodie 119 Hence of Saint Johnston's ribband came the word In such a frequent use, when with a cord They threaten rogues. |
b. pl. Reins.
= ribbon n. 4 b.
| 1840 Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. St. Odille, If once she contrives To get hold of the ribands. 1857 Moncrieff Bashful Man ii. iv, Shouldn't have any objection..to let you handle the ribands for a stage or two. |
4. a. A narrow strip
of something; an object resembling a ribbon in form;
= ribbon n. 5 d.
| 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 517/2 It is upon this stripe or riband of cotton wool that the operation of spinning begins. 1834 M{supc}Murtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 271 The branchiæ form a single tube or riband. 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville II. 223 Upon the narrow riband of ice that bordered the shore. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 21 The long steel tube..is wrapped round and round by a riband of steel. |
b. pl. Torn strips; shreds, tatters.
| 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenst. i. (1865) 42 The tree was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to ribands of wood. 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xlix, With their clothes hanging in ribands about them. 1865 Kingsley Herew. vi, The clouds tore up into ribands. |
c. spec. (See
quot.)
| 1886 Amer. Nat. July 675 Riband, a term applied to the stripes painted on arrow-shafts, generally around the shaftment. These ribands have been called clan-marks,..etc. |
5. attrib. and
Comb. a. Attrib., in sense ‘made of ribbon, resembling a ribbon’, as
riband cockade,
riband lace,
riband ligature,
riband wick.
| 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. vii. 37 [They] fasten their sleeues aboue with silk ryband lace of diuers colours. 1793 Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 98 A very excellent common lamp, with a riband wick. 1802 James Milit. Dict. s.v., The Riband Cockade, which is given to recruits, is commonly called colours. 1826 S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 104 The history of the broad tape, or riband ligature. |
b. Misc., as
riband-back,
riband-like,
riband-shaped,
riband-wreathed adjs.;
riband-maker,
riband-manufacturer,
riband-weaver.
| c 1515 Cocke Lorell's B. 10 Golde sheres, keuerchef, launds, and reben makers. 1615 Chapman Odyss. iv. 329 Their riband-wreathed wiues brought fruit and cakes. 1722 De Foe Plague (1884) 31 Ribband Weavers. 1826 Ribband manufacturer [see broad a. 1 c]. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 203/2 A strip of continuous riband-shaped membrane. a 1843 Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. (1849) Ser. ii. 604 We perceived in the water..a sort of riband-like object,..which had the direct form and figure of a snake. 1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles vii. 166 Chippendale had good reason for satisfaction. The riband-back chair..notably expressed the style of his Director period. 1960 H. Hayward Antique Coll. 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. |
c. Special combs.:
riband cane,
var. ribbon cane s.v. ribbon n. 10 c;
riband coal,
conspiracy,
cream,
-fish,
-grass,
gurnard,
jasper,
snail,
snake,
-stone,
wave,
weed (see
quots. and
cf. ribbon n. 9 d, 10).
| 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 56 Fifth Variety [of coal] from Irwine.., black, presents layers in contrary directions, hence often called *Riband Coal. |
| 1858 Illustr. Times 4 Dec. 381 The *Riband conspiracy is extensively revived. |
| 1769 Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 250 To make *Ribband Cream. Take eight quarts of new milk [etc.]. |
| 1751 Edwards Nat. Hist. IV. 210 The *Ribband Fish. 1836 Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 224 Red Bandfish, Snakefish, Ribbandfish. 1854 Badham Halieut. 232 Leaving the Mackerel family, we come next to that of the Tænioides, or riband-fish. |
| 1793–8 Nemnich Polyglot Lex. v. 957 *Ribband grass, arundo picta. |
| 1854 Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 101 *Riband-Gurnards (Lepidosomatidæ). Body anguilliform, sword-shaped. |
| 1809 Kidd Outl. Min. I. 207 It is called *ribband jasper from the striped disposition of these [colours]. 1852 Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. III. xxvi. 93 Some fine pieces of riband jasper, or Egyptian pebbles. 1900 E. S. Dana Text-Bk. Min. 327 Striped or riband jasper has the colors in broad stripes. |
| 1752 J. Hill Hist. Anim. 192 The horn-coloured, depressed, fasciated cochlea. The Jamaica *Ribband-snail. 1815 Burrow Conchol. 204 Helix Zonaria, Ribband Snail. |
| 1791 W. Bartram Carolina 271 The *ribband snake is another very beautiful innocent serpent. |
| 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 203 *Riband-stone, sandstone in thin layers alternating in colour, generally light and dark grey. |
| 1832 J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 142 The *Ribband Wave (Acidalia aversata, Stephens) appears in June, July, and beginning of September. |
| 1866 Treas. Bot. 981/2 *Riband-Weed, the common name in some districts of the ordinary form of Laminaria saccharina. |
▪ II. ˈriband, v. Now
arch. Also 5–9
ribband; and
pa. pple. 4
i-rybaunt, 5
ribaned, 6
ribband.
[f. the n., or ad. F. rubaner.] trans. To adorn or trim with (or as with) ribands.
| α 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 13 In Red Scarlet heo Rod I-Rybaunt with gold. c 1400 Rom. Rose 4752 Ragges, ribaned with gold, to were. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 113, I make hoodes purfyled with silke and ribaned with gold aboute. c 1480 Henryson Garment of Gude Ladies v, Her gown suld be of gudliness, Weill ribband with renowne. |
| β 1642 Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 65 Others by a phantastique kind of ribanding themselvs..do make themselves knowne to have breathed forraine ayre. 1833 L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 182 A cap, laced and ribanded in all manner of zig-zags. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 451/1 Species which have..the whorls of the spire flat and ribanded. 1840 H. Ainsworth Tower of London 9 A cloak of crimson satin,..ribanded with nets of silver. |
| γ 1485 Rutland Papers (Camden) 23 A surcote of purpill velwet..ribbanded with gold at the colar, hands, and speris. 1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, Your mistris appeares..ribbanded with greene and yellow. 1795 Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 46 Now they are..powdered and perfumed and ribbanded and sashed and plumed. 1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 652/2 So to ribband, to fur,..and to fringe..men is..degrading their humanity. 1880 Gosse in Ward's Eng. Poets II. 126 Ribbanding the may-pole as though it were the cone-tipped rod of Dionysus. |
Hence
ˈribanded ppl. a.| 1598 Marston Sco. Villanie 167 Castilios,..court-boyes, spanish blocks, Ribanded eares. a 1625 Fletcher, etc. Fair Maid Inn iii. i, One that..has miraculously purchast a ribanded wastcote. |
▪ III. riband variant of
ribband n. and v.