Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
FRINGED
fringed
(adjective) having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips
fringed
(adjective) surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination; “a large suburban community...fringed by an industrial area”; “a grass-fringed stream”
fringed, laciniate
(adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed; “a laciniate leaf”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
fringed (not comparable)
Possessing a fringe.
Verb
fringed
simple past tense and past participle of fringe
Anagrams
• ferding
Source: Wiktionary
Fringed, a.
Definition: Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear (Bot.), a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
FRINGE
Fringe, n. Etym: [OF, fringe, F. frange, prob. fr. L. fimbria fiber, thread, fringe, cf. fibra fiber, E. fiber, fimbriate.]
1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.
2. Something resembling in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine. The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance. Jer. Taylor.
3. (Opt.)
Definition: One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: The peristome or fringelike appendage of the capsules of most mosses. See Peristome. Fringe tree (Bot.), a small tree (Chionanthus Virginica), growing in the Southern United States, and having snow- white flowers, with long pendulous petals.
Fringe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fringed; p. pr. & vb. a. Fringing.]
Definition: To adorn the edge of with a fringe or as with a fringe. Precipices fringed with grass. Bryant. Fringing reef. See Coral reefs, under Coral.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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