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fringeless

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fringe

  [frinj] noun, verb, fringed, fring⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
2. anything resembling or suggesting this: a fringe of grass around a swimming pool.
3. an outer edge; margin; periphery: on the fringe of the art world.
4. something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else: the lunatic fringe of a strong political party.
5. Optics. one of the alternate light and dark bands produced by diffraction or interference.
6. fringe benefit.
–verb (used with object)
7. to furnish with or as if with a fringe.
8. to serve as a fringe for, or to be arranged around or along so as to suggest a fringe: armed guards fringing the building.
Origin:
1325–75; ME frenge < OF (F frange) < VL *frimbia, metathetic var. of LL fimbria, L fimbriae fringe

Related forms:
fringeless, adjective
fringelike, adjective
fringy, adjective

Synonyms:
2. edge, border, skirt, rim.
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Word Origin & History

fringe 
1354, from O.Fr. frenge (1316), from V.L. *frimbia, metathesis of L. fimbriæ (pl.) "fibers, threads, fringe," of uncertain origin. Figurative sense of "outer edge, margin," is first recorded 1894.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: fringe
Pronunciation: 'frinj
Function: noun
often attributive : one of various light or dark bands produced by the interference ordiffraction of light
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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