name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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fringer
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noun
Meaning 2
A person who makes fringes for garments
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noun
Meaning 3
A device for making paper fringes
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Qualifier: scrapbooks
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noun
Meaning 4
One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival)
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noun
Meaning 5
A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in general
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2001, Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312876637&id=WycRLdcQL1EC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&sig=0bsLGgglyoCuT5BWsVFGcy2FG5g If at any point a fringer fails to plant, if at any point the soil is broken, then the rains eat channels under it, and tear away the fringe on either side, and eat back into farmland behind it.
- 2001, R Celeste Ray, Highland Heritage http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0807849138&id=2pyqgupHqtgC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&sig=Vr_AWP7zbnxHpFuxcI1HXOJ9pqo These fringers are distinguished from mainstreamers by their lack of exposure to, or interest in, Jacobitism and Highlandism.
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History
Etymology
From fringe + -er.