n. 1 trimming, edge, edging, border, frill, flounce, ruffle, purfle, purfling, ruff, ruche or rouche, ricrac or rickrack, ornament, decoration, furbelow The curtains would look better without that pink fringe 2 border, perimeter, edge, boundary, bounds, periphery, limits, margin, outskirts, march(es); Technical fimbria We live on the fringes of Oxford
v. 3 edge, border, trim, surround The grounds are fringed with trees