bordering

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Having a common boundary or border

France and Spain are bordering nations.
King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage.1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:

noun

A pattern or ornament forming a border.

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