An honor or award gained for excellence.
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Examples for "blue ribbon "
1 The Energy Department appointed the blue ribbon commission to look at options.
2 And she tied up the birch tree with the pretty blue ribbon .
3 The various articles were carefully wrapped up and tied with blue ribbon .
4 Suspicion slid down the banisters of his mind, trailing a blue ribbon .
5 Over the berth, a cracked guitar hung by a greasy blue ribbon .
1 Now they're off on cordon bleu cookery courses or environmental awareness training.
2 He ought to have said ' cordon bleu , ' for I've never eaten a better dinner!
3 Most captains take cordon bleu food, or works of antique art, fancy fabrics, stuff like that.
4 After all, one does not go to Burger King expecting a cordon bleu repast with fine wine.
5 A cordon bleu passed under the window.
6 These skills included cordon bleu cooking, marksmanship, a customized blend of martial arts, emergency medicine and information technology.
7 And so in fact it was, and Puysieux received the cordon bleu on the day the King had named.
8 To despise money, is to despise happiness, liberty, in short, enjoyments of every kind. A cordon bleu passed under the window.
9 From what I've seen of the past three months' ordering slips, we should remove the chicken cordon bleu , meatloaf, and broiled flounder.
10 He rose high in the French army, and had the cordon bleu : his sister was second wife of the first Duke of Berwick.
11 At an early date in the cordon bleu Russian Tea Room on 57th Street, he ordered his student standby meal, a tuna sandwich.
12 It was back in the early Eighties and Gaynor, a long-time bank official, had taken a sabbatical to pursue a cordon bleu cookery course.
13 The cordon bleu and the cordon rouge are in the like position, and abbeys are still more constantly subject to the régime of influence.
14 He had always the cordon bleu outside, except at fetes, when he wore it inside, with eight or ten millions of precious stones attached.
15 And I know she went to the Cordon Bleu school in Paris.
16 Then Rosette spoke for the first time since the Cordon Bleu ball.
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