"Ribanded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Affairs were such slovens, and stunk so abominably, that no muscadin ambassador of the smallest degree of delicacy of nerves could come within ten yards of them; but now they are so powdered, and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed, and plumed, that, though they are grown infinitely more insolent in their fine clothes even than they were in their rags, (and that was enough,) as they now appear, there is something in ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
