FRINGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fringed mean? 

• FRINGED (adjective)
  The adjective FRINGED has 3 senses:

1. surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination

2. having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips

3. having edges irregularly and finely slashed

  Familiarity information: FRINGED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRINGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination

Context example:

a grass-fringed stream

Similar:

bordered (having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Having edges irregularly and finely slashed

Synonyms:

fringed; laciniate

Context example:

a laciniate leaf

Similar:

rough (of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped)

 Context examples 

Haulbowline Head and Mizzen-mast Hill were at my elbow, the hill bare and dark, the head bound with cliffs forty or fifty feet high and fringed with great masses of fallen rock.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A thin green line of vegetation fringed the summit of the ruddy cliff.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle held out his hands towards the blaze, and I noticed that they were as white as the ruffles which fringed them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fringed end of the fallopian tube.

(Fimbriated End of the Fallopian Tube, NCI Thesaurus)

For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor’s knee.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was dressed in pure white; an amber-coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was now a variegated wall, composed of the trees that fringed the stream, the opposing mountain that towered above the trees, and the sky that out-towered the mountain.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Thank God!” said Alleyne suddenly, as he spied in the lamp-light a shock of blazing red hair which fringed a steel cap high above the heads of the crowd.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)