noun
1 ( BrE ) hair ⇨ See also bangs
ADJECTIVE
▪ heavy , thick
▪ floppy
▪ long
VERB + FRINGE
▪ grow out
▪ cut , trim
▪
My ~ needs cutting.
▪ push
▪
She kept pushing her ~ off her forehead.
PREPOSITION
▪ from beneath your ~ , from under your ~
▪
She stared at us from beneath her ~.
2 ( esp. BrE ) outer edge of a place, group, society, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ outer
▪ radical
▪ eastern , western , etc.
▪ coastal , urban
▪ lunatic ( BrE )
▪
the lunatic ~ of the nationalist parties
VERB + FRINGE
▪ remain on
▪
He has always remained on the ~s of mainstream politics.
FRINGE + NOUN
▪ area
▪ group
▪ meeting
▪ theatre/theater , venue
▪
He moved from ~ theatre/theater to the West End.
PREPOSITION
▪ along the ~
▪
the forests along the eastern ~ of the Andes
▪ around the ~
▪
new housing around the urban ~
▪ beyond the ~
▪
Beyond this ~ no agriculture is possible.
▪ on the ~ , on the ~s
▪
These people live on the ~s of society.