📏 Long surface streaks 🥕 Cutting into strips 🎀 Decorating with ribbons

ribboning

3.8

To put long thin cloth or paper strips on things to make them look nicer

noun

: decoración con cintas

She spent hours on the ribboning of the gift boxes to make them look special.

Examples

The festive ribboning along the parade route delighted the children.
The ribboning of the gift made it look beautiful.
The baker's careful ribboning gave the cake an elegant appearance for the celebration.
She loves ribboning her crafts with colorful ribbons.
The baker's careful ribboning gave the cake an elegant appearance for the celebration.
She spent hours on the ribboning of the gift boxes to make them look special.
The festive ribboning along the parade route delighted the children.

Synonyms

festoon

vsribboning

1 7.5

A decorative chain or garland hung in a curve between two points

is the act of creating hanging decorations rather than a single curved decorative piece

festoonery

vsribboning

1 9.9

Decorations of flower chains or ribbons hung in curves between points

is the act of arranging hanging decorations rather than the finished decorative display

Antonyms

plainness

1 3.5

Being simple and without decoration

Surface Forms

ribboning singular

ribbonings plural

Morphology

ribboning = ribbon (transparent) = ribbon + ing

This is a regular deverbal noun formed from the verb 'ribbon' plus '-ing', so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base verb.

Etymology

Ribboning comes from ribbon, a word for a 'long, thin piece of cloth' used to decorate things. So, ribboning means decorating or adorning with ribbons.