ppl. a. [f. FRINGE sb. or v. + -ED.] Furnished with a fringe; adorned with or as with a fringe.

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1495.  Wills Doct. Com. (Camden), 4. Twoo curteyns of whit sarcenet fringed.

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1552.  Church Goods, in Dillon, Calais & Pale (1892), 97. Item foure quesshinges, viz two of greene cloth of tyssue, one of reede frynged silke.

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 408.

          Pro.  The fringed Curtaines of thine eye aduance,
And say what thou see’st yong.

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1654–5.  in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. VII. (1890), 22. 4s. for a black fringed belt.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IV. 262. The fringed Bank with Myrtle crownd.

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a. 1775.  Hobie Noble, in Child, Ballads, clxxxix. 2/1. He has pulld out his fringed grey.

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1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 380. Flowers 3 or 4 together, included in a membranaceous fringed sheath.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., II. 369. The margin of their wings is fringed.

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1882.  The Garden, XXI. 24 June, 437/2. Dianthus holtzeri.—Seems a dark-coloured form of the old and pretty Fringed Pink (D. superbus).

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