Meanings of white riband in English

The white riband seemed no impossible fantasy to Loveday when she started on her quest.

You want to earn money for yourself this next month to buy your white riband with.

He too saw in that length of satin, now soiled and crumpled, more than a white riband.

"Is she all black, or does she sometimes sport a white riband?"

"Or even shower its ardours upon a piece of white riband?"

"Those rascals over yonder manage things better," said an old one-eyed captain, with the blue-and- white riband for St. Vincent peeping out of his third buttonhole.