Sentence example with the word 'riband'

riband

Definition n. a ribbon used as a decoration

Last update: October 5, 2015


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An Orthodox bishop, vested for the holy liturgy, wears over his cassock - (i) the rnxcipcov, or alb (q.v.); the E7nrpay,Acov, or stole (q.v.); (3) the a narrow stuff girdle clasped behind, which holds together the two vestments above named; (4) the E7 n, uaviexa, liturgical cuffs, corresponding, possibly, to the pontifical gloves of the West;' (5) the i 7rtyovarcov, a stiff lozengeshaped piece of stuff hanging at the right side by a piece of riband from the girdle or attached to the o-AKKos, the equivalent of the Western maniple (q.v.); (6) the like the Western dalmatic (q.v.), worn instead of the 4acv6Acov, or chasuble; (7) the c?µocp6pcov, the equivalent of the Western pallium (q.v.).   [Please select]

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A lady asks her partner: "Who's my sister's partner, vis-à-vis, with the star and riband."   [Please select]

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"Yes, I am," said I; "it was a blue riband," and I turned over a page very ostentatiously.   [Please select]

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Afterward they came to the town where the king lived, and bought a silken riband for the goat.   [Please select]

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'Every man carries his fate on a riband about his neck'; so the Moslem put it.   [Please select]

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"'Every man carries his fate,'" he repeated, "'on a riband about his neck."'   [Please select]

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The page bore a quotation: "Every man carries his fate on a riband about his neck."   [Please select]

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