fringe

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If the fringe is to be a frayed-out one, the best way to do it is to first draw out a few warp threads where the head of the fringe is to come, then hem stitch the upper edge of this, see the right-hand end of fig. 155; this makes the heading of the fringe secure, after which the remainder of the warp threads can be withdrawn.

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  1. noun A decorative border or edging of hanging threads, cords, or strips, often attached to a separate band.
  2. noun Something that resembles such a border or edging.
  3. noun A marginal, peripheral, or secondary part: "They like to hang out on the geographical fringes, the seedy outposts” (James Atlas).
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  • But elsewhere around the fringe was a developing cone of bleaching bones, the remainders of the tree's past victims. —  The Source of Magic
  • Beneath the fringe were a set of neat, indeterminate features and a pair of grayish eyes. —  Lonesome Road - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 03: 1939
  • Its great yellow fore-fringe was a snarl of wave after wave, unceasing. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • Do we advise her to fringe or not to fringe (again)? —  Celebrity Fashion Watch
  • The religions on the fringe, the Cults, they fascinate me because of their level of self delusion. —  Deep Thoughts
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tuft ·  patch ·  ribbon ·  clump ·  plume ·  strand ·  expanse ·  border ·  curtain ·  edge ·  rim ·  skirt

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fringe:   fringes
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English frenge, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, alteration of Late Latin fimbria; see fimbria.

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  1. from Middle English fringe, frenge, from Old French *fringe (not found, but inferred from French dial. frinche, Italian dial. frinza, Middle Latin fringia), another form of Old French frange, French frange = Italian frangia = Spanish Portuguese franja (cf. Dutch frangie, franje = Middle Low German frense = Middle High German franze, G. franse = Swedish frans = Danish fryndse, a fringe, from F.); apparently the same, with unexplained deviation of form, as Provencal fremna = Wallachian frimbie, from Late Latin fimbria, a border, fringe, L. plural fimbriæ, fibers, threads, shreds, fibrous part, fringe: see fimbria.
  2. from fringe, n.
 

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