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What is the noun for ribbon?

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ribbon
  1. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
  2. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
  3. A narrow strip or shred.
  4. (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband
  5. (plural) reins for a horse.
  6. (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
  7. (spinning) A sliver.
  8. (computing) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
  9. (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “The child had long, light-brown hair, with a little ribbon in it.”
      “Chris, look, I'll give you a ribbon for participation, but in the real world, it's about results.”
      “The King rides through Berlin wearing a ribbon with the colors of the revolution on his arm.”
ribband
  1. (shipbuilding) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He ought to get no more by it, than a poor silk-weaver does by the ribband which he works, to make a gallant fine.”
      “La Touche listened, standing, and still holding the ribband of seaweed in his fingers.”
      “These ribband fillings are not incidental, but are placed there to prevent too sharp an outline.”
ribbonite
  1. (geology, uncommon) A carbonate micrite with ribbon-like laminations.
ribbonlength
  1. (mathematics) The length of a ribbon (in a ribbon knot)
ribbonry
  1. ribbons collectively
ribband
  1. (obsolete) A ribbon.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He ought to get no more by it, than a poor silk-weaver does by the ribband which he works, to make a gallant fine.”
      “La Touche listened, standing, and still holding the ribband of seaweed in his fingers.”
      “These ribband fillings are not incidental, but are placed there to prevent too sharp an outline.”
ribbands
  1. plural of ribband
ribbons
  1. plural of ribbon
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As more jagged ribbons of lightening above set the sky alight, Ely swore aloud as he was blinded.”
      “At the top of them, two wavy pink ribbons hung down to the sides of her eyes.”
      “Expounding and elucidating as she wafts across the paper, Clio floats like the ribbons around her hair and waist.”
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