Noun

(boundaries)

The dividing line or location between two areas.

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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

(cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.

(cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (a four) or 6 (a six) runs respectively for the batting team.

(topology) (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set $S$, not belonging to the interior of that set.

Noun

(en noun)

A decorative border.

the fringe of a picture

A marginal or peripheral part.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Jeremy Taylor)

the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance

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, year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}

Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.

The periphery of a town or city.

He lives in the fringe of London.

That part of the hair that hangs down above the eyes; bangs.

Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

* 1915 , ":

In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe .

* 1981 , , HERmione , page 155,

Fayne in the photograph had a fringe , hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

* 2007 , , Sophie's Dilemma , page 16,

Ingeborg knew she wasn?t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she?d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn?t either.

“No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

* 2009 , Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion , page 231,

Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

(label) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

interference fringe

Non-mainstream theatre.

The Fringe''; ''Edinburgh Fringe'''''; ''Adelaide '''Fringe

(label) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.