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fringeth

fringeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fringe.

Meaning of fringe

Verb

fringe (third-person singular simple present fringes, present participle fringing, simple past and past participle fringed)

  1. (transitive) 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.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24
  2. (transitive) To serve as a fringe; to border.
    • Purple bonnets fringed soft, pink, querulous faces on pillows in bath chairs.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob's Room

See all 16 meanings of fringe

Origin of fringeth

fringe + -eth

Questions about fringeth

What is fringeth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fringeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fringe.

Words near fringeth in the dictionary

  1. fringers
  2. fringes
  3. fringest
  4. fringetail
  5. fringetails
  6. fringeth
  7. Fringeverse
  8. fringeworthy
  9. fringey
  10. fringie
  11. fringier

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