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FRINGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination
Example:
a grass-fringed stream
Classified under:
Similar:
bordered (having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having edges irregularly and finely slashed
Example:
a laciniate leaf
Synonyms:
fringed; laciniate
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fringe
Context examples:
The high-set ears are rather short in a triangular shape, slightly fringed and hanging close to the head.
(Brittany Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
And as he had seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling François on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But around 75% of the ice sheet is fringed by floating ice shelves, which are up to a kilometre thick, mostly below sea level, but with tens of metres of their total height protruding above the water.
(Surface lakes cause Antarctic ice shelves to ‘flex’, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Sometimes they were the expressive eyes of Henry, languishing in death, the dark orbs nearly covered by the lids and the long black lashes that fringed them; sometimes it was the watery, clouded eyes of the monster, as I first saw them in my chamber at Ingolstadt.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A grinning red face turned once more into a pink oval, fringed with gingery fluff; the interview was at an end.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a large room with a wooden floor and an open square in the ceiling, which was fringed with the heads of the ostlers and stable boys who were looking down from the harness-room above.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw—clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands—a great field of open sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spyglass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The breeze blew, the sail bellied, over heeled the portly vessel, and away she plunged through the smooth blue rollers, amid the clang of the minstrels on her poop and the shouting of the black crowd who fringed the yellow beach.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
