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Blue-ribbon   Listen
adjective
blue-ribbon  adj.  Selected or chosen for special qualifications; as, a blue-ribbon grand jury.
Synonyms: blue ribbon(predicate), select.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Blue-ribbon" Quotes from Famous Books



... sun blazed down through the thin obstacle of the tall corn. It flashed on the white-and-striped shirt and trousers and on the turn-down straw hat with the blue-ribbon band. In the deep-furrowed rows dust puffed up from under the hurrying little sandalled feet. Intent on seeing those darting silvery fish in that deep-shaded pool, Tommy did not once turn to look into the ...
— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux

... and produced a black bottle and glass. 'I'm blue-ribbon myself, but ye'll be the better of something to tak the taste out of your mouth. There's Loch Katrine water at the pipe there ... As I was saying, there's not much ill in that lot. Tombs is a black offence, ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... and noble gentleman from London. "Your father had twenty-two registered ancestors, had your father," old Guardian says, "and in him was the best bull-terrier blood of England, the most ancientest, the most royal; the winning 'blue-ribbon' blood, that breeds champions. He had sleepy pink eyes and thin pink lips, and he was as white all over as his own white teeth, and under his white skin you could see his muscles, hard and smooth, like the links of a steel chain. When your father ...
— The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys • Richard Harding Davis



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