Meaning

noun any long object resembling a thin line

noun an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

noun a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter

originFrom Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0