an ornamental border, e.g. on a curtain or garment, consisting of straight or twisted threads or tassels
something resembling a fringe; a border
chiefly Brit the hair that falls over the forehead
something marginal, additional, or secondary
(treated as sing. or pl) an unconventional or extremist group
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe — Theodore Roosevelt
(the Fringe) a part of the British professional theatre featuring small-scale experimental productions
in physics, any of the alternating light or dark bands produced by interference or diffraction of light
fringeless adj
[Middle English frenge from French, ultimately from Latin fimbriae (pl) fibres]