The word "ribbons" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a long, thin, flexible strip made from fabric, paper, or plastic, often with decorative edges and used for tying or decorating something. For example, "She tied a bright pink ribbon around the gift box."
But why forgo indulging in all the frippery the boutiques have to offer, with their work-of-art interiors and over-the-top tissue paper and ribbons, in favour of scrabbling about for last season's cast-offs?
The new flavour, which contains "butterscotch ice cream with ribbons of butterscotch swirl", instead of any actual alcohol, was unveiled at a launch in New York.
Keeping the royal in the Royal Easter show happens a couple of times a decade and gives a lot of pleasure to the remnant grazier class who bring their sheep and cattle to town every Easter in the hope of ribbons.
This is a strange, liminal object: a maypole bedecked with slim red and black ribbons and chains from which hang aluminium plaques bearing grisly two-dimensional images of severed heads.
Most of them are shot outside, with the author explaining how to catch fish with your bare hands, make cords and ribbons from plastic bottles and knives and axes from everyday objects.
I come from a superstitious lot, with a grandmother and mother who not only did the standards – knocking wood, throwing salt, gathering four-leaf clovers, U-turning if a black cat crossed their paths – but also practiced a more homespun lunacy that included wrapping red ribbons around our wrists, stowing sugar in drawers, and assorted bizarre rituals to counter The Evil Eye.
I couldn't find the origin of this belief except that, like red ribbons, it's most common in Jewish households.
A tent, decorated with orange ribbons, was erected and two tables with bouquets of red, pink and white roses were set.
At the back, low evergreens trimmed into cloud forms nestle among ribbons of English meadow, cutting through to lead you out towards the park.
Yesterday's show in Claridge's ballroom ticked the heritage box with the village fete rosette ribbons that trailed from her signature mini prom dresses, and a pair of green corduroy jodhpurs.
6. Red ribbons Growing up there was not a bed in our home that didn't have a red ribbon secreted under the mattress.
