What does fringe mean?
Fringe means A decorative border..
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/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/ · noun
A decorative border..
the fringe of a picture
The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground.
the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.
About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s.
He lives on the fringe of London.
Moreover, although a number of lines penetrate to the fringes of the English Lake District, this is the only one which actually passes through it.
Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
Use fringe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fringe means A decorative border..
Common synonyms include edge, periphery, outskirts, bangs.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
the fringe of a picture
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