Noun

(wikipedia town) (en noun)

A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city.

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Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.

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A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

The residents (as opposed to (gown): the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.

(label) (Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion).

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(label) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.

(label) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.

(label) The whole of the land which constituted the domain.

(label) A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.

(Palsgrave)

A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.

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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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.

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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.