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noun

Fringe n.

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine. "The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance."

(Opt.) One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; called also interference fringe.

(Bot.) The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.

verb

Fringe v. t. (past & past part. fringed; pres. part. fringing) To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. "Precipices fringed with grass."

Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fringe" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tenter-hooks, in some standing regular and in order, in others not; all the points of which are directed from the body towards the tip of the wing, nor is this edge onely thus fring'd, but even all the whole edge of the wing is covered with a small fringe, consisting of short and more ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... by virtue of his two-and-twenty years and a small fringe of dark down that covered his upper lip; Eric was shorter by some inches, but more thick-set and with broader shoulders, predicting that he would be the bigger of the two as ...

— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson

... hard climb—till he reached what he concluded was a divide. Going down was easier, though the farther he followed this dim and winding trail the wider the broken battlements of rock. Above him he saw the black fringe of pinon and pine, and above that the bold peak, bare, yellow, like a desert butte. Once, through a wide gateway between great escarpments, he saw the lower country beyond the range, and beyond this, vast and ...

— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey

... his queer smelling pale gold pendants in late May he has shown no touch of color, but has wrapped himself stoically in sober green and waited, as old men know how to do. Now his day has come again and he is very brave in rubies that fringe his dull attire and make him flash fire in the sun from head to foot. Slender goldenrod girls and blue-eyed aster children, trooping along the fields and over the hills, holding up the train of summer as she walks so sedately, think him adorable. If summer stops ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

... all things to pick out clever young men and set them up in retail businesses with money lent at four per cent. Not once did he make a blunder, and so very lucky was he that he used to tell his niece that with all his enormous expenditure he had not touched the fringe of his colossal capital. If he assisted any advertised charity he did so in the most princely way, but only after he had personally held an audit of the books. If the committee wanted to have the chance of ...

— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman

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