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beribboned

beribboned

1 6.5
An item like a hat or gift that has ribbons on it to look nicer
  • adjective
  • /bɪˈrɪbənd/
translation icon : decorado con cintas
  • The birthday girl opened her gifts, revealing a stack of bright beribboned boxes.
  • a beribboned box

Examples

  • The streets were busy with Christmas shoppers carrying colorful bags and beribboned boxes.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Jules hands him a large beribboned box.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • So Sarah felt, as she stepped into the living room with his cards and his beribboned bottle of wine, too dressed up.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • "Brilliana came back from the inner regions of the house with a beribboned petticoat and began to iron it.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Steve was just about to tell her that when she stood up, scooped up her ridiculous beribboned mutt, and strode off.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • A tiny red shoe rests on the side of the carriage, while inside only a blanket and a white, beribboned bonnet suggest the infant.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Sure enough, the nineteenth-century trading post was swarming with tourists in crimson "victory" shirts and beribboned bush hats.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • It was sitting beside their makeshift sleeping bag, its ridiculous beribboned head cocked to one side and its bulging eyes fixed on something behind him.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • There will be a quartet playing Haydn and Handel, and everywhere, the sweet musky perfume of beribboned swags and beeswax candles.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Against the backdrop of an impossibly rococo arcadia, an assortment of beribboned, bewigged, pomaded, and pantalooned twerps and nincompoops spoon and sport.

    Blog text (32)

Synonyms

ribboned
vsberibboned
3.7

Decorated with long narrow bands of cloth that hang or are tied

is identical in meaning but uses an added prefix to suggest fuller coverage
decorated
vsberibboned
2.7

Covered with small things that make something look more beautiful

is specific to using narrow cloth strips for ornament rather than general embellishments
adorned
vsberibboned
3.9

A thing with decorations like jewels or banners to make it look more beautiful

focuses specifically on using narrow cloth strips rather than any embellishment

Antonyms

plain
50 2.5

Not attractive to look at

unadorned
6 5.1

Plain in appearance with no decoration

How Decorated

beribboned
1 6.5
decorated
2.7
plain
208 1.0

Surface Forms

beribboned positive

Morphology

beribboned = beribbon (transparent) = be + ribbon + ed

The suffix '-ed' indicates a past participle or adjective form, modifying 'beribbon' to mean adorned with ribbons.

Etymology

Beribboned comes from the small word be- at the start, meaning 'covered with', and the familiar word ribbon, a narrow strip of cloth. So beribboned simply means 'decorated with ribbons'.