to fringe
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5.8
- verb
- /frɪndʒ/
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- To add a decorative touch, the designer chose to fringe the curtains with golden tassels.
Examples
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Still, there were compensations to warming weather, and he sniffed appreciatively at the breeze that rustled the furled buds just beginning to fringe the all-but-bare branches.
Fiction book (1998) -
I had then envisaged the two of us tootling up to Athens, catching a ferry down to one of the Greek islands that fringe Turkey's Aegean coast, and from there tootling up to Istanbul.
Blog text (2) -
You are still going to get more fringing with close up subjects.
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-I'm gonna chase until they fringe you to the Fringes?
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So the question now is how have they improved clarity so much, both with the fringing and just overall pixel density?
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My son loved swinging from and wielding the impressive howitzers that fringe the Military Museum; even without kids, the relaxation is infectious.
Blog text (22) -
Omurunga palms (Hyphaene petersonia) fringe rare desert springs.
Academic text (1996) -
The secret to its movement is cilia, those microscopic hairlike organelles that fringe paramecia to help them wiggle through water.
Academic text (2009) -
This safety valve might allow many, incapable of rationalizing their miserable situation, to circumvent otherwise socially unacceptable reactions that might fringe on or be considered 'insanity.'
Blog text (20) -
Most of the years he'd sailed on the lakes, they'd made it into December; the ice of Superior would hold off that long, so he wasn't home to see the tatted crystals begin to fringe the bay or to taste the air's last flavor of earth.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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3.1
To add a decorative edge around something
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4.9
To add hanging strings to clothes or curtains for decoration
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4.2
To give something a border or to make its side sharp
To add a fringe to the edge of something
Compounds
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3.5
An extra thing an employer gives you besides pay, like health insurance or a car
- Offensive
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8.8
People with very extreme political or social views who are outside the main group
- US
A small bushy tree from the southeastern United States that has many white flowers
A small religious group with unusual beliefs and practices outside larger churches
- US
A plant that lives many years in low leaf clumps with pale pink or cream fringed flowers in clusters
- Specialized
A small desert lizard with long pointed scales on its toes that help it run on sand
- Specialized
Bands of light and dark that appear when light waves meet and mix
How Fringed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fringe comes from an old French word frange meaning 'border' or 'tuft'. To fringe something is to add that 'border', putting hanging threads along its edge.