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noun
A decorative border.
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" I pointed out that there were fringe elements in America who said that about New York after 9/11.
"We were fringe members of the pre-débutante league, and I used to see Niki at dances," he continued.
They were fringe figures: the former Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke; the right-wing Texas congressman Louie Gohmert; Paul Nehlen, a conservative political gadfly from House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional district, who has spoken on white-supremacist radio.
For most of the last 64 years, Agatha Christie has been the only female playwright represented in the London West End, but, next month, the feminine presence will be tripled by transfers of two biographical dramas that were fringe hits: Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet, about the first black actor to play Othello in Britain, and Jessica Swale's historical comedy Nell Gwynn.
Andrew Hanson from the Los Angeles Times thought it was a really good episode, and even wished it could have been turned into a movie, were Fringe to get into filmmaking.
To reflect the episode's setting in 1985, the typical title credit sequence was redone using different music, the Asimov font for early computer type for the show's logo, and terms that were "fringe science" at the time, such as "virtual reality," "genetic engineering," and "personal computing".
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Among the spectacular one-off bags were fringes draped like silken curtains or in silver chains.
"It's fringe groups.
"There are fringe elements of every faith".
Others, like the EDL, are fringe groupings.
"For years we've been fringe," he said.
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