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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fringed
    adj 1: surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in
           combination; "a large suburban community...fringed by an
           industrial area"; "a grass-fringed stream"
    2: having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips
    3: having edges irregularly and finely slashed; "a laciniate
       leaf" [syn: fringed, laciniate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fringe \Fringe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fringed (fr[i^]njd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Fringing.]
   To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe.
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         Precipices fringed with grass.           -- Bryant.
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   Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fringed \Fringed\, a.
   Furnished with a fringe.
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   Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
decorated \decorated\ adj.
   having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady,
   bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled,
   sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled,
   monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed,
   raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne,
   enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume);
   crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested;
   embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled,
   ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked
   out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly,
   ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid;
   inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled,
   wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled;
   tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out]
   Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.

   Syn: adorned.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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