Fringed
[frindʒd]
Definition
(adj.) having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips .
(adj.) surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination; 'a large suburban community...fringed by an industrial area'; 'a grass-fringed stream' .
(adj.) having edges irregularly and finely slashed; 'a laciniate leaf' .
Typist: Ruben--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fringe
(a.) Furnished with a fringe.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fimbriate, fimbriated.
Typist: Morton
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FIMBRIATED]
Editor: Lucius
Examples
- A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own grounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Goldenrod and asters fringed the mossy walls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The candles lighted up Lord Steyne's shining bald head, which was fringed with red hair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The water was brackish and the banks were fringed with timber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The previous year she had made a dazzling debut fringed by a heavy thunder-cloud of bills. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The ottomans, which were uniformly placed, were covered with satin to correspond with the drapery, and fringed with silver. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is narrow, very tortuous, and fringed with a very heavy growth of timber, but it is deep. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Lucius