Definitions for fringes

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fringes fringe

Spelling: [frinj]

IPA: /frɪndʒ/

Fringes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in fringes (efginrs).

Definitions for fringes

noun

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:
3. an outer edge; margin; periphery:
4. something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else:
5. Optics. one of the alternate light and dark bands produced by diffraction or interference.
6. fringe benefit.

verb (used with object)

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:

Origin of fringes

1325-75; Middle English frenge Old French (French frange) Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathetic variant of Late Latin fimbria, Latin fimbriae fringe

Examples for fringes

The fringes of this Eden were already tainted with the color of gold.

All about were stumps and fringes of pines, which the lumbermen, for some good reason, had passed by.

For the Padre had not always lived beyond the fringes of civilization.

Fimbria: thick, ciliated hair at the termination of any part: fringes.

The progress of the story does not touch even the fringes of Paris.

They showed merely the feet or fringes of some huge and empty architecture.

The core of the tale we could imagine; it is the fringes that are mysterious.

Of course "the System" fringes and ravels away, having no real outline.

You can see where some have torn off portions of the fringes to clean their rifles.

In order to lengthen them, I combed their fringes with my paws.