OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2658

ribbon

/ˈɹɪbən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cinta • galón • lacito • lazo • moño
A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
cinta
An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
Late at night, in the typewriter light / Ripped his ribbon to shreds
They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.