Ribbony

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    long and thin; resembling a ribbon wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
ribbonlikeribbonlike

Example

More examples

"Beat egg whites in a bowl until they are foamy and have a thick, ribbony texture, 2 to 3 minutes."

Etymology

From ribbon + -y.

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