1. ribbon - Noun
2. ribbon - Verb
A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
Same as Rib-band.
Driving reins.
A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
A silver.
To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPoverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. Anzia Yezierska
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. Robert Benchley
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. T. S. Eliot
The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding - Riding - riding - The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door. Alfred Noyes
As I go walking this ribbon of highway I see above me the endless skyway And all around me the wind keeps saying: This land is made for you and me. Woody Guthrie
Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks. Anne Lamott