<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip</li><li>anything resembling or suggesting this: a fringe of grass around a swimming pool</li><li>an outer edge; margin; periphery: on the fringe of the art world</li><li>something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else: the lunatic fringe of a strong political party</li><li>one of the alternate light and dark bands produced by diffraction or interference</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms:</strong></p><ul><li>rim</li><li>skirt</li><li>border</li><li>edge</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to furnish with or as if with a fringe</li><li>to serve as a fringe for, or to be arranged around or along so as to suggest a fringe: armed guards fringing the building</li></ul>