Other forms: fringes
A fringe is hair cut straight across the forehead. Cut a fringe, a blunt fringe, grow out the fringe.
The American word is bangs, and this is one of the sharpest British-American splits in everyday vocabulary. A fringe is also a decorative border of hanging threads, on a rug or a lampshade. Figuratively, the fringe is the edge of a group or movement: fringe politics, the lunatic fringe. Note the Edinburgh Fringe, which was named for the shows on the edge of the festival and is now bigger than it.
1nounfringeHair cut straight across the forehead.
“She's growing out her fringe because it keeps getting in her eyes.”
2nounedgeThe edge of a group or area.
“The shop is on the fringe of the city, out near the motorway.”
fringe is a border or edge.
Also accepted in games: bangs
Old French frenge comes from Latin fimbriae, threads or a border, with the letters swapped along the way. The hair sense is English and much later than the trimming one.
Latin
fimbriae — fibers, threads, fringe
Vulgar Latin
*frimbia
Old French
frenge
Middle English
frenge
English, today
fringe
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”), of unknown origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native fnæd, byrd (“fringe”), fasel (“fringe”) from fæs, and fnæs. a doublet of fimbria.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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