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the edge where the dismissed wait their turn to become obvious
means the outer edge or margin of something — whether the literal decorative border of fabric, the hair cut to fall over the forehead, or the marginal, unconventional position relative to a mainstream center
from From Old French 'frenge,' descended from Late Latin 'frimbia,' an alteration of Latin 'fimbria' meaning 'fibers, threads, border' — the dangling threads at a cloth's hem. The decorative-edge sense came first; the figurative 'outer margin of a group or movement' is a later extension, blooming into compounds like 'fringe benefit' and 'lunatic fringe' in the 20th century.
- flapper craze
- fringe dresses sold motion, swaying with every Charleston step
- science origin
- plate tectonics was fringe nonsense for decades
- festival name
- Edinburgh's Fringe began as rejects crashing the official show
- hair return
- bangs are just fringe with a personality crisis
- optics term
- light fringes reveal interference, proving waves overlap
the fringe festival edinburgh — world's largest arts festival, started 1947, features 3,000+ performances annually in edinburgh
tv series fringe — sci-fi drama starring anna torv, ran 2008-2013, about parallel universes and fbi investigations
fringe benefits tax australia — taxable employee benefits in australia, introduced 1986, applies to cars, meals, accommodation