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Ribbon

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

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Accolade 76% connected

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

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Award 76% connected

To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrator…

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Honor 76% connected

Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.

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Honour 76% connected

a woman's virtue or chastity

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Notion 76% connected

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Blade 76% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Riband 76% connected

See Ribbon.

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Ribband 76% connected

A ribbon.

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Containing whole 1

Typewriter 70% connected

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain print…

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Decoration 92% connected

The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Medal 92% connected

A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Medallion 92% connected

A large medal or memorial coin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Palm 92% connected

The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.

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Thread 92% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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