border
/ˈbɔɹ.dɚ/ noun B1- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. · The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- The outer edge of something. · the borders of the garden
- A decorative strip around the edge of something. · There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.· a solid border around a table of figures
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
Plural borders
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The garden was crossed by a path of red gravel, edged by a border of thick box, of many years’ growth, and of a tone and color that would have delighted the heart of Delacroix, our modern Rubens.
Mark’s column at Venice, and on the borders of the Arno at Florence, little imagining at the time that they would be arranged in order within the walls of the Château d’If.
Once, I remember, as we passed over the Gemmi, and walked along the border of the melancholy Daubensee, a large rock which had been dislodged from the ridge upon our right clattered down and roared into the lake behind us.
As if in answer to his words there rose suddenly out of the vast gloom of the moor that strange cry which I had already heard upon the borders of the great Grimpen Mire.
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