fringe

A decorative border.

the fringe of a picture

The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground.

A decorative border.

He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him.

A marginal or peripheral part.

the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance

Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.

A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.

About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s.

A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.

a fringe group of the party

Outside the mainstream.

So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.

To decorate with fringe.

[Y]onder cloud / That rises upward always higher, / ⁠And onward drags a labouring breast, / ⁠And topples round the dreary west, / A looming bastion fringed with fire.

Presently she saw the King's palace. Pillars of ice held up the roof fringed with icicles, which would have sparkled splendidly if there had been any sun.

To serve as a fringe; to border.

Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.

The Japanese Archipelago, fringing the eastern edge of Asia, has a rich avifauna, including what is probably the rarest bird in the world - the Toki or Japanese Crested Ibis, and one of the most recently discovered birds - the Okinawa Rail.