Usually means: Edges or borders of fabric.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word fringes:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. fringes: Merriam-Webster
  2. fringes, the fringes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fringes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fringes: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fringe's, Fringes, fringes: Wordnik
  6. fringes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. fringes: Wiktionary
  8. fringes: Dictionary.com
  9. fringes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Fringes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. fringes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fringes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fringes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fringes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. fringes: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fringes: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fringes: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fringes: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fringes: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fringe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fringe)

noun:  A decorative border.
noun:  (by extension) A border or edging.
noun:  (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
noun:  A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
noun:  (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
noun:  The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
noun:  (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
noun:  (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
noun:  (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
noun:  Non-mainstream theatre.
noun:  (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
noun:  (golf) The area around the green
noun:  (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
adjective:  Outside the mainstream.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as a fringe.
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