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English
Noun
ribbon cane (countable and uncountable, plural ribbon canes)
- (Southern US) Sugar cane; specifically, striped varieties of sugar cane grown in the southern United States.
1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 2, Letter 18, p. 336:The ribbon cane […] is called by the French rouge et d’or, being longitudinally striped yellow and deep red. It grows as high as the Bourbon, but is slenderer, and of course resists wind less.
1944, Katherine Anne Porter, “The Old Order”, in The Leaning Tower and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace, page 55:“We’ll grow fine ribbon cane here. The soil is perfect for it. We’ll have all the sugar we want. But we must be patient.”
1966, J. J. Phillips, chapter 1, in Mojo Hand, Berkeley: City Miner Books, published 1985, page 8:The voice she heard was slowly rough and delicately brutal, like stones being rattled in a can of ribbon cane syrup.
1994, Joe R. Lansdale, “Bubba Ho-Tep”, in The Best of Joe R. Lansdale, San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, published 2010, pages 51–52:His knees clacked together like stalks of ribbon cane rattling in a high wind.
Usage notes
The term ribbon cane has been misapplied to varieties of sorghum used to produce syrup.