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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.
EXPANDOptics. one of the alternate light and dark bands produced by diffraction or interference.
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.
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Fringing
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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English frenge < Old French (French frange) < Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathetic variant of Late Latin fimbria, Latin fimbriae fringe
1325–75; Middle English frenge < Old French (French frange) < Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathetic variant of Late Latin fimbria, Latin fimbriae fringe
Related forms
fringe·less, adjective
fringe·like, adjective
fring·y, adjective
un·der·fringe, noun
un·fringe, verb (used with object), -fringed, -fring·ing.
Synonyms
2. edge, border, skirt, rim.
2. edge, border, skirt, rim.
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Word Origin & History
fringe
mid-14c., from O.Fr. frenge (1316), from V.L. *frimbia, metathesis of L. fimbriæ (pl.) ibers, threads, fringe," of uncertain origin. Figurative sense of "outer edge, margin," is first recorded 1894. As a verb, from late 15c. Related: Fringed; fringes. Fringe benefits is recorded from 1952.
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