Fringe is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRINGE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to provide with an ornamental border
• decorate (clothing or material) with a fringe
• form a border around (something)
• (of a plant or animal) having a border of hair or fibre
• To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
• adorn with a fringe
• decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe
• decorate with a fringe
NOUN:
• an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material
• a natural border of hair or fibres in an animal or plant
• the outer, marginal, or extreme part of an area, group, or sphere of activity
• a secondary festival on the periphery of the Edinburgh Festival
• a band of contrasting brightness or darkness produced by diffraction or interference of light.
• a strip of false colour in an optical image.
• hair cut short and hanging over the forehead
• 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.
• the outside boundary or surface of something
• a part of the city far removed from the center
• one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
• a social group holding marginal or extreme views
• a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
• an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
• the front part of a person's hair cut so as to hang over the forehead
ADJECTIVE:
• (of theatre) unofficial or unconventional
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with a fringe (an ornamental border)

Words related to FRINGE

fringed12 fringeless14 fringes11 fringing13

Words that contain FRINGE

fringed12 fringes11 befringe14 infringe12 refringe12 befringed16 befringes15 infringed14 infringer13 infringes13 refringed14 refringes13 fringeless14 infringers14 refringent14 fringetree14 fringelike18 refringence17 refringency20 fringetrees15 birefringent18 infringement18 refringences18 birefringence21 infringements19 refringencies19 birefringences22 noninfringement21

How to use FRINGE in a sentence

• The fringe of the forest became mysterious in its velvet dark.
• Probably a hundred vehicles of all descriptions were hitched to trees just within the fringe of woods.
• Most of all, as the island swam closer, the embracing fringe of cocoanut-trees drew my eyes.
• In this latter case, a broad cross-belt is worn over the left shoulder, and the upper fall of fringe hangs from the cross-belt.
• It is trimmed round the top with a fringe which runs diagonally across the chest, and a similar fringe edges the dress down the front where it opens.
• No wheeled vehicles traverse that silent region which lies just over the fringe of the prairies and the great Canadian wheat belt.
• At any rate he rose after a little and followed the creek bank to a point well down stream, whence he crossed through the fringe of timber to his cabin.
• A shallow ravine and a fringe of woods afforded us the cover we needed.
• Charmed by the prospect, Hiram and Henry descended this hill and came suddenly, through a fringe of brush, to the border of an open cove, or bottom.
• Alone, we at the centre, and you, upon the outer fringe, will be safe.
• So far we have operated in the fringe territory, keeping away from any district with a history which we can trace accurately.
• Now in seven days it was impossible to do more than touch the fringe of Cairo.
• He also wore a bristling iron-grey beard that grew in form of a fringe or ruff, and added an air of ferocity to his make up.
• From left to right they are, respectively, the God of Harvest, Fringe Mouth, and Talking God.
• To the west was another and broader inlet of the Sound, out of which our Arcadian promontory rose bluff and bold, crowned with a thick fringe of pines.
• Only now he wrote in the early mornings, so that on most days they could set out before noon and steam back late to the low fringe of lights on the lagoon.
• The males, both old and young, are coal black with a fringe of white hairs about the face, and the females are light brown.
• Covered with Velvet, Ringed with Fringe and studded with Copper Nails.
• I notice that even you are gradually being reduced to a mere fringe around the base of your skull.
• A fringe of trees ran up it, bordering the frozen creek alongside the trail.
• The other sections of the circle were marked by the fringe of wood that bordered a stream winding from the hills, at a considerable distance above.
• Civilization is but a filmy fringe on the history of man.
• They know that big hungry trout feed in from the deeps, and that big frogs, savage cannibals every one, watch out from the shadowy fringe of water plants.
• I had been dreaming, and in my dream I had seen two figures pass along the road beyond the fringe of the trees.
• Her light hair was dressed with a fringe and ringlets, on the pattern which the portraits of the time of Charles the Second have made familiar to us.

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