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Collocations for fringe - noun

1. (BrE) hair

→ See also bangs

ADJECTIVE

heavy, thick
floppy
long

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VERB + fringe

grow out
cut, trim
My fringe needs cutting.
push
She kept pushing her fringe off her forehead.

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PREPOSITION

from beneath your fringe, from under your fringe
She stared at us from beneath her fringe.

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2. (esp. BrE) outer edge of a place, group, society, etc.

ADJECTIVE

outer
radical
eastern, western, etc.
coastal, urban
lunatic (BrE)
the lunatic fringe of the nationalist parties

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VERB + fringe

remain on
He has always remained on the fringes of mainstream politics.

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fringe + NOUN

area
group
meeting
theatre/theater, venue
He moved from fringe theatre/theater to the West End.

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PREPOSITION

along the fringe
the forests along the eastern fringe of the Andes
around the fringe
new housing around the urban fringe
beyond the fringe
Beyond this fringe no agriculture is possible.
on the fringe, on the fringes
These people live on the fringes of society.

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