Blue ribbon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an honor or award gained for excellence
    cordon bleu.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. . (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These [scholarships] were the blue ribbon of the college." Farrar. (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army.

Webster 1913