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ribbony

ribbony adjective: like ribbon.

Adjective

ribbony (comparative more ribbony, superlative most ribbony)

  1. Like ribbon.
    • Jean-Luc Godard’s radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse “Contempt,” 45 this year, is being revived again, in startling color and elegant, ribbony CinemaScope, for the second time in just over a decade, and it’s beginning to look like one of those movies we can’t do without for very long: a classic.2008 March 9, Terrence Rafferty, “Man, Godard and Nature (and Bardot, Too)”, in New York Times

Forms of ribbony

comparativemore ribbony
superlativemost ribbony

Origin of ribbony

From ribbon + -y.

Questions about ribbony

What does ribbony mean?
Ribbony means like ribbon.
What part of speech is ribbony?
Ribbony is an adjective.

Words near ribbony in the dictionary

  1. ribbonwood
  2. ribbonwoods
  3. ribbonworm
  4. ribbonworms
  5. ribbonwort
  6. ribbony
  7. Ribbs
  8. Ribbun
  9. ribby
  10. Ribby-with-Wrea
  11. ribcage

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