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fringe

Pronunciation: (frinj), [key]
—n., v., fringed, fring•ing.

—n.
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. See fringe benefit.

—v.t.
1. to furnish with or as if with a fringe.
2. to serve as a fringe for, or to be arranged around or along so as to suggest a fringe: armed guards fringing the building.

Friml

fringe area

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