beribboned

[ bih-rib-uhnd ]

adjective

1. adorned with ribbons.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beribboned¹

1825–35; beribbon ( be- + ribbon ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The paneled walls were hung with paintings of female humans swinging in beribboned swings.

From Literature

In a gallery that suggests a pre-revolutionary French sitting room, we are greeted by a portrait of Marie Rinteau, the great-grandmother of George Sand, seated at her dressing table, as painted by François Hubert Drouais in 1761; her forearms emerge from beribboned froths of lace and a separate lace collar slightly obscures her décolletage.

From New York Times

And they come beribboned and frilled.

From New York Times

Christmas is a feeling inside, not something in a beribboned box.

From Washington Post

She wore a beribboned straw hat, a kinetically patterned black-and-bone colored dress, and block heel spectator pumps.

From New York Times