Definition of: fringe

(frinj) noun
1. An ornamental border or trimming of pendent cords, loose threads, or tassels.
2. Any fringelike border, edging, or margin.
3. Any outer or bounding portion: a fringe of shrubs in a garden, a fringe of land seen in the distance.
4. Optics One of the alternate light and dark bands produced by the interference of light, as in diffraction.
—v.t. fringed, fring·ing
1. To ornament with or as with a fringe.
2. To serve as a fringe or border for. [<OF frenge <L fimbria a fringe]