v. [f. BE- 1 + FRINGE v.] trans. To border, furnish or adorn with (or as with) a fringe. Hence, Befringed ppl. a.
1611. Cotgr., Enfranger, to befringe; to edge, or set with fringe.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, 78. Befringed with gold.
1737. Pope, Horace Ep., II. i. 419. Let my dirty leaves … Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho.
1848. H. Miller, First Impr., xiv. (1857), 239. A placid stream, broadly befringed with sedges.
1884. Manch. Exam., 10 Dec., 3/1. Christmas cards … of the gorgeous befringed upholstered sort.
