riband

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English

Noun

riband (countable and uncountable, plural ribands)

  1. Archaic form of ribbon.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 573
      Riband and fringe are often bought by the ounce.
  2. (heraldry) A narrow diminutive of the bend, thinner than a bendlet.

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