Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having an irregularly and finely slashed or notched edge: Describes something with a border or margin that appears delicately cut or divided into fine segments.
   • Decorated with a fringe: Describes something adorned with an ornamental border of hanging threads, cords, or strips.
   • Surrounded by or bordered with something: Describes something that has a distinct edge or margin formed by something else.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The botanist identified the plant by its fringed leaves. (The leaves had finely divided edges.)
  • She wore a beautiful shawl with a fringed border. (The shawl was decorated with hanging threads.)
  • The property is fringed by ancient oak trees. (The property is bordered or surrounded by trees.)

Advanced Usage

• Used in combination: Often combined with a noun to describe what forms the fringe or border.
  • A forest-fringed lake. (A lake bordered by a forest.)
  • The snow-fringed peak. (A mountain peak edged with snow.)

Variants and Related Words

• Fringe (noun): An ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels; the outer edge or margin of something.
  • The fringe of the carpet.
• Fringe (verb): To decorate with a fringe; to form a border for.
  • To fringe a curtain.
• Fringing (adjective/gerund): Serving as or forming a fringe.
  • The fringing mangrove forest.

Synonyms

• Bordered: Having a border.
• Edged: Having a specified edge.
• Tasseled: Adorned with tassels (a specific type of fringe).
• Laciniate (botanical): Cut into deep, narrow, irregular segments; fringed.

Related Phrases

• Fringed with: Bordered or edged with.
  • A path fringed with wildflowers.
• On the fringe(s) of: At the outer edge or margin of a place, group, or activity.
  • He lived on the fringe of the city.

Adjective

1. having edges irregularly and finely slashed
   • a laciniate leaf
2. having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips
3. surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination
   • a large suburban community...fringed by an industrial area
   • a grass-fringed stream