fringe
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
fringe (plural fringes)
- A decorative border.
- the fringe of a picture
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
- Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
- The periphery of a town or city.
- He lives in the fringe of London.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs#English|bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
- 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
- “No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
- 2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=dFwifjvgLBYC&pg=PA231&dq=%22fringe%22|%22fringes%22+hair+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GFVYT42BG46WmQWrmthI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22fringe%22|%22fringes%22%20hair%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 231],
- Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- interference fringe
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- The Fringe; Edinburgh Fringe; Adelaide Fringe
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (golf) The area around the green
- (AU) ngd Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:
- All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views) fringe group
- (periphery of a town or city) outskirts
- French: frange
- German: Franse
- Italian: frangia
- Portuguese: borda, franja, orla
- Russian: бахрома́
- Spanish: orla
- French: périphérie
- German: Rand
- Italian: periferia
- Portuguese: periferia
- Russian: перифе́рия
- French: radicaux
- German: Randgruppe, Rand
- Italian: radicale
- Portuguese: radical, extremista
- Spanish: extremista, radical
- French: périphérie
- Italian: periferia
- Portuguese: periferia
- Russian: перифери́я
- Spanish: periferia
- French: frange (d'interférence)
- Italian: frangia
- Russian: полоса́
- French: théâtre alternatif, théâtre d'avant-garde
- Italian: teatro di nicchia
fringe (not comparable)
- Outside the mainstream.
- French: marginal
- German: Rand
- Italian: marginale, di nicchia, secondario
- Portuguese: marginal
- Russian: маргинальный
- Spanish: marginal, contracorriente
fringe (fringes, present participle fringing; past and past participle fringed)
Translations- French: franger
- Italian: decorare con una frangia, decorare con frange
- Russian: окантовать
- Spanish: orlar
- Italian: fungere da frangia
- Russian: окаймлять
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