Definition of Fringe

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Fringe

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine.

One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.

The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome.

To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.

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Fringe Quotations

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
Theodore Roosevelt

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
Charlton Heston

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
Christine McVie

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
Kevin Kelly

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
John Conyers

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
Timothy West

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.
Joshua Leonard

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
Christopher Parker

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
Ted Koppel

Fringe Translations

fringe in French is outsider
fringe in German is Franse
fringe in Norwegian is frynse, pannelugg, kante, utkant
fringe in Spanish is franja
fringe in Swedish is kanta, flik, frans, lugg

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