ribbon-banded

Updated: May 25, 2025

Arrived at the cricket ground, they climbed the Grand Stand and sat down in one of the back rows, to the rear of the other spectators. Before them sloped a steep bank of hats gaily-flowered and ribbon-banded hats of light and dark shoulders, of alert, boyish profiles and pale, pretty faces a representative gathering of young Australia, bathed in the brilliant March light.

Henry Handel Richardson - The Getting of Wisdom