fringe
/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/ noun C1- A decorative border. · the fringe of a picture
- A border or edging.
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views. · a fringe group of the party
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city. · He lives on the fringe of London.
- A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light. · interference fringe
- Non-mainstream theatre. · The Fringe· Edinburgh Fringe
Plural fringes
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In the midst of this growing and important stress the broker became suddenly aware of a high-rolled fringe of golden hair under a nodding canopy of velvet and ostrich tips, an imitation sealskin sacque and a string of beads as large as hickory nuts, ending near the floor with a silver heart.
The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged shaky fringes of things.
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs.
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