underfringe

noun

underfringe

noun

Etymology From under- + fringe.

1

A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something.

But at the point of noon the huge Earl Doorm, / Broad-faced, with under-fringe of russet beard, / Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey, / Came riding with a hundred lances up; […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 74:

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