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Definition of Ribbings
1. ribbing [n] - See also: ribbing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbings
Literary usage of Ribbings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Rare Artistic Properties Collected by the Connoisseur ...by American Art Association, Raoul Tolentino, Seymour de Ricci, Horace Townsend by American Art Association, Raoul Tolentino, Seymour de Ricci, Horace Townsend (1920)
"Body decorated with four shaped ribbings and lions' masks in relief; ...
Sides decorated with four projecting shaped ribbings and inscription in relief. ..."
2. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1862)
"... and is valuable only as showing those ribbings and small and peculiar pitting
on the surface which accord with the like but fainter ribbings and ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"Not a minnit sooner : not a minnit latter; and being elped hup to the box by 3
men, he took the ribbings, and drove his employers, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... the ribbings to town! Though them tuppenny smokes do run up when one's funds
is a little I know a good 'oss when I see one ; it isn't for nothing, ..."
5. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"... not a minnit latter ; and being elped hup to the box by 3 men, he took the
ribbings, and drove his employers, ..."
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