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Fringe
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- 1 Outside the mainstream.
"So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe."
- 1 A decorative border.
"the fringe of a picture"
- 2 an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels wordnet
- 3 A decorative border.; A border or edging. broadly
"He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him."
- 4 a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead wordnet
- 5 A marginal or peripheral part. also, figuratively
"the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance"
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- 6 a social group holding marginal or extreme views wordnet
- 7 A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
"About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s."
- 8 a part of the city far removed from the center wordnet
- 9 A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.; Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views. also, attributive
"a fringe group of the party"
- 10 one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light wordnet
- 11 The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
"He lives on the fringe of London."
- 12 the outside boundary or surface of something wordnet
- 13 The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.; Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc. Australia
"All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves."
- 14 Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across. UK
"Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes."
- 15 A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
"interference fringe"
- 16 Non-mainstream theatre.
"The Fringe"
- 17 The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- 18 The area around the green
- 19 A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- 1 To decorate with fringe. transitive
"[Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / And onward drags a labouring breast, / And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire."
- 2 decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe wordnet
- 3 To serve as a fringe; to border. transitive
"Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs."
- 4 adorn with a fringe wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
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