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befringe

verb

Etymology

From be- (“on, at, upon”) + fringe.

  1. derived from fimbriae — “fibers, threads, fringe”
  2. derived from *frimbia✻
  3. derived from frenge
  4. inherited from frenge
  5. prefixed as befringe — “be + fringe”

Definitions

  1. To furnish or adorn with a fringe.

    • [...] women themselves went in armour, (having a brave lasse like another Penthesilea for their leader, so befringed with gold, that they called her Golden-foot) riding astride like men [...]
    • And when I flatter, let my dirty leaves (Like Journals, Odes, and such forgotten things As Eusden, Philips, Settle, writ of Kings) Cloath spice, line trunks, or flutt’ring in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Sohoe.
    • 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan: Cantos IX.—X.—XI., London: John Hunt, Canto 10, stanza 29, p. 32, … each dress he sported, Which set the beauty off in which he glowed, As purple clouds befringe the sun …

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA