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Fringe   /frɪndʒ/   Listen
Fringe

noun
1.
The outside boundary or surface of something.  Synonyms: outer boundary, periphery.
2.
A part of the city far removed from the center.  Synonym: outskirt.
3.
One of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light.  Synonym: interference fringe.
4.
A social group holding marginal or extreme views.
5.
A border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead.  Synonym: bang.
6.
An ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels.
verb
(past & past part. fringed; pres. part. fringing)
1.
Adorn with a fringe.
2.
Decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe.



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"Fringe" Quotes from Famous Books



... day he informed Jessie that he would have to go back to his work in London, and that it might be a year or more before he could acknowledge her openly as his wife to his rich and proud parents. Jessie was prostrated with grief; and late that afternoon her hat and fringe-net were discovered by the edge of the waters. Realising at once that she must have drowned herself in her distress, Andrew took an affecting farewell of her father and the sheep, and returned to London. A year later he married a distant cousin, and soon rose to a condition of prosperity. At ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 • Various

... fringe! That is the burden of what I have to say to you this time; for indeed and indeed this is to be a fringe-and-tassel season, and you must cover yourself all over with fringe and the rest of yourself with tassels, or ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Apr 2, 1919 • Various

... the Canon, "there's a fringe of the semi-insane round all churches; they used to lie in ...
— Great Possessions • Mrs. Wilfrid Ward

... ball, lying in a snug nest amid the bushy sprouts from an elm stub which projected three or four feet above the water. The tree had been broken off, and leaned out from the summer banks of the river. It had grown, as elm stumps often do, a dense fringe of short, tangled brush about the end of the trunk. Among these sprouts the beaver had fashioned a nest, and was lying curled up, asleep, when Mortimer, drifting silently down within short range, raised his ...
— Chums of the Camp Fire • Lawrence J. Leslie

... astonished at the sharp relief in her voice, for she had suddenly made up her mind that the boy was there hiding from her. There was no answer to her call. Very slowly then she went over and lifted the lid of the case. It was quite loose, and edged with a fringe of strong nails that had once fastened it to the box, but which now were red with rust. A quantity of sacking, of the kind used for winding about fragile goods, lay heaped at the top and came away easily to her hand, exposing that which lay firmly wedged at the bottom. What she ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley


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