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fringe

n.

The extreme edge
border, borderline, margin, periphery; see edge 1.
A raveled or decorative edge
flounce, hem, trimming, rickrack, edging, frill, ruffle, lace, knitting, tatting, crochet, needlepoint, border, binding, tape, bias, pinking.

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Another word for fringe

noun

A fairly narrow line or space forming a boundary:
border, borderline, brim, brink, edge, edging, margin, periphery, rim, verge. (Chiefly Military) perimeter. See edge
The periphery of a city or town:
edge, environs, outskirt (often used in plural), skirt (used in plural), suburb (used in plural). See edge

verb

To put or form a border on:

border, bound², edge, margin, rim, skirt, verge. See edge

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But around and north-east of this lake the same wellmarked ranges fringe the plateau and turn their steep north-western slope towards the valleys of the Irkut, the Barguzin, the Muya and the Chara, while their southern base lies on the plateaus of the Selenga (nearly 4000 ft.
Most of the swamp fringe is reclaimable.
The Mesozoic begins with a Triassic land period in the mainland of Australia; while the islands of the Australasian festoon contain the Triassic marine limestones, which fringe the whole of the Pacific. The Triassic beds are best known in New South Wales, where round Sydney they include a series of sandstones and shales.
Small islands, inhabited by a fishing population, fringe the west coast.
Cebenna or Gehenna), a mountain range of southern France, forming the southern and eastern fringe of the central plateau and part of the watershed between the Atlantic and Mediterranean basins.

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