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fringy, a.|ˈfrɪndʒɪ|
[f. fringe n. + -y1.]
1. Of the nature of or resembling a fringe.
c1750Shenstone Elegies xxi. 10 My devious path I bend, Through fringy woodland, or smooth-shaven lawn. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 327 The fringy termination of the Fallopian Tubes. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 321 A fimbriated or fringy series of purple cirri. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad I. 75 The gracefullest little fringy films of lace.
2. Furnished or adorned with a fringe or fringes; covered with fringes.
1831T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle xiv. (1887) 149 All that surrounded their [eyes'] fringy portals was radiant as ‘the forehead of the morning sky’. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 206 Fluttering as the mantle's fringy rim. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. v. VII. 48 Green, shaggy or fringy mountains looking down on it to rearward. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vi. 203 Any sort of people in conical hats and fringy caps.
Comb.1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. ix. iii. §21 The dog..is one of the little curly, short-nosed, fringy-pawed things. |