Middle English Dictionary Entry
ribaned ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | ribaned ppl. Also riband(e, ribaunde, iribaunt, ribbonet, rebaned, rebained, rebaund, rebended. |
| Etymology | From riban n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Ornamented, trimmed, bordered.
Associated quotations
- (1386-7) Doc.in HMC Rep.14 App.8129 : ij pilweres rebaned.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.173 : [A red] pilche ribbonet [with] damask.
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)2.13 : I..was war of a womman wonderliche cloþide..In red scarlet robid & ribande [vrr. rebended, rybanyd, Rebaned, rebaund, I-Rybaunt, rebaynyd] wiþ gold.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4752 : A slowe may not forbere Ragges, ribaned with gold, to were.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)758 : A croune of clene gold was closed vpon lofte, Rybaunde vmbe þe rounde helm, ful of riche stones.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)164 : The fayrest iewel þer is a ymage of our lady..in a blew mantell ribaned with white and gold.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)113 : I make hoodes purfyled with silk and ribaned with gold aboute.
- c1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)81/10 : Tofore that sate Cayphas..about his body a riche mantel of cloth of gold, riband by al þe bordirs ful richely of perree.