Noun : an overseas ribbon. ,clothes torn to ribbons. From Dictionary.com.
I also like this new ribbony thing that's swirling on the same sim. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
I asked if you can turn that ribbony thing off or put it on the side. From Wordnik.com. [First Look At The More Mac-Like Microsoft Office 2011 Beta | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
"To the carnival, " Jilly added, tying her blond hair back with a blue, ribbony scrunchie. From Wordnik.com. [My Name is Evil]
Just wondering, what exactly is on the sprinkly, ribbony cake behind the passed out pink elephant?. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Birthday to Meeee!] Reference
The other three trees had a much lighter foliage - a silver edge to long ribbony leaves of a very pale green. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
Speaking of Love has arrived and I love the fact it's dovegrey AND has a ribbony bookmark because those always impress me. From Wordnik.com. [42 entries from July 2007] Reference
The lacy bridal veil, the little buckled slippers, the full, filmy petticoats and all the soft white ribbony things that it is the right of every bride to have. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Skirtpants: item of seriously negligent underwear consisting of a virtually non-existent g-string attached to a transparent mini-skirt, with dangly ribbony bits at the sides. From Wordnik.com. [grown up] Reference
A ribbony infrastructure coiling and recoiling around the city, spiraling around tower blocks and zigzagging down skyscrapers; an eco-progeny of Brutalist skyways, skybridges and skywalks. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Whip for 2 minutes or until mixture is thick and ribbony. From Wordnik.com. [A Foodie Froggy in Paris] Reference
The directions also called for the yolks to cook up to a ribbony stage. From Wordnik.com. [everybody likes sandwiches] Reference
The fluffy, blue heels that he paired with his gowns were ribbony and ruffly and a bit bridal. From Wordnik.com. [ShoeBlog] Reference
That's why the pronunciation, in a smaller font, appears under the restaurant's name on their ribbony logo. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Parmigianino gave his line a swoony, ribbony lift; Jacopo Pontormo infused it with the encephalographic jitters. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
I'm not trying to organize Browning Clubs, and sit in clean white kids yearning up at lecturers with ribbony eyeglasses. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
It's very similar to the Curve in that it has a prominent head and a thick ribbony design on the shaft that add to your sensation. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Bad Girl] Reference
In the soup was spaghetti -- the wide, ribbony, slippery kind he especially liked, coiled about in a broth which smelled deliciously of garlic. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
Of course Julie Thronton, wrapped in a smart, ribbony black outfit, played part of the effervescent hostess, and many of her exquisitely set off friends. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
Of course Julie Thornton, wrapped in a smart, ribbony black outfit, played part of the effervescent hostess, and many of her exquisitely set off friends. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
Some people may consider her too stern, too matter-of-fact, but she isn't; in her boudoir there is scent and sachet and frilly, ribbony things that nobody ever sees. From Wordnik.com. [Flowing Gold] Reference
She sang as she worked in the house, her sweet, ribbony voice filling the room with a gladness and rapture that made her mother, with her mystical Celtic temperament almost apprehensive. From Wordnik.com. [Purple Springs] Reference
Just as the blood keeps trickling down from the four ribbony scars on his bald pate, the revenue keeps trickling in from appearance fees, signed photos, DVD's - even the fork he tries to sell after the show. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Immediately below us, and receding down, down, down, toward the valley, was a shaven confusion of hilltops, with ribbony roads and paths squirming and snaking cream-yellow all over them and about them, every curve and twist sharply distinct. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
"If you think of your Lady Gagas and your Rihannas of the world, it's almost like everyone's looking for a way to take classic beauty statements and modernize them or to make them unique, funky, artistic and futuristic: double liner, ribbony thin liner, ink blot liner and all kind of new shapes.". From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
The stock ticker - a machine that tracked financial data over telegraph lines and stamped it on strips called "ticker-tape" for the sound the printing made - had barely been around two decades before Wall Streeters realized that throwing its ribbony paper out the window was a fun way to celebrate. From Wordnik.com. [GoodShit] Reference
I’m not trying to organize Browning Clubs, and sit in clean white kids yearning up at lecturers with ribbony eyeglasses. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
When finished, the mixture should be ribbony. From Wordnik.com. [Daring Bakers Challenge:Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream] Reference
And not that silly ribbony gymnastics rhythmic. From Wordnik.com. [The Olympics: "weirdly unsexy."] Reference
Of ribbony themes the air hoe. From Wordnik.com. [Latest amIright Song Parodies] Reference
(1951) (accidental epiphanies in a ribbony freefloat). From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Stark-white, hand-made paper, a dry, pressed flower; no ribbony, frippery, girly-girly thing, that ain't Lis style. From Wordnik.com. [GUYANA] Reference
"I'm glad you're not one of those women that wears a frowsy, lacy, ribbony, what-do-you-call-'em-boudoir-cap -- down to breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference
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