fringeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American, Received 発音) IPA^(key): /fɹɪndʒ/
• 韻: -ɪndʒ

名詞

fringe (複数形 fringes)

1. A decorative border.

   the fringe of a picture

   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 1, page 118:

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

2. A marginal or peripheral part.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance

   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

3. Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
4. The periphery of a town or city (または other area).

   He lives on the fringe of London.

   • 1961 October, "Voyageur", “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 598:

     Moreover, although a number of lines penetrate to the fringes of the English Lake District, this is the only one which actually passes through it.

5. (Britain) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.

   Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.

   • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

     In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.

   • 1981, Hilda Doolittle, HERmione‎^[2], page 155:

     Fayne in the photograph had a fringe, hair frizzed over hidden ears, sleeves over-ornate, the whole thing out of keeping.

   • 2007, Lauraine Snelling, Sophie's Dilemma‎^[3], page 16:

     Ingeborg knew she wasn′t ready for fringes or short hair like some of the women she′d seen, and she hoped her daughter wasn′t either.

     “No.” Astrid′s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.

   • 2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231,

     Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).

6. (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.

   interference fringe

7. Non-mainstream theatre.

   The Fringe; Edinburgh Fringe; Adelaide Fringe

8. (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
9. (golf) The area around the green
10. (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:

      All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.

11. (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.

同意語

• (members of a political party, または any social group, holding unorthodox views): fringe group
• (periphery of a town または city): outskirts

派生語

形容詞

fringe (not comparable)

1. Outside the mainstream.
   • 2015 September 7, Holland Cotter, “Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces”, in New York Times‎^[4]:

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

同意語

• alternative
• nonmainstream

動詞

fringe (三人称単数 現在形 fringes, 現在分詞 fringing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fringed)

1. (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
2. (transitive) To serve as a fringe.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room:

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