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fringers

fringers is the plural of fringer.

Meaning of fringer

Noun

fringer (plural fringers)

  1. A person who makes fringes for garments
  2. (scrapbooks) A device for making paper fringes
  3. One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival)
  4. A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in general
    • The region was remote; the early explorers were pirates, fugitives and fringers, followed by miscellaneous settlers, to the effect that Camberwell had been inhabited for many thousands of years.1998, Jack Vance, Night Lamp http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312864728&id=fEfpyaadd7cC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&sig=6m1yzALlxahLdw7yucMb6umOn-4

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Questions about fringers

What is fringers the plural of?
Fringers is the plural of fringer.

Words near fringers in the dictionary

  1. fringelike
  2. fringent
  3. fringepod
  4. fringepods
  5. fringer
  6. fringers
  7. fringes
  8. fringest
  9. fringetail
  10. fringetails
  11. fringeth

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