Thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)

Usage examples of fimbria.

Quite unable to control Fimbria, Flaccus found himself subordinate to his subordinate.

Then Fimbria trapped Mithridates in Pitane and sent to Lucullus to help him capture the King by blockading the harbor.

Carbo twice, Marcus Gratidianus twice the urban praetor, almost half the Senate outlawed, Appius Claudius banished with his imperium intact, Fimbria running round Asia Minor making deals with King Mithridates-the whole thing is a joke!

When he was murdered by Fimbria in the street outside his door, she was widowed again.

A few men looked serenely comfortable-Catulus, Hortensius, Lepidus-and some looked terrified-a Flaccus or two, a Fimbria, a minor Carbo-but most bore the look of sheep, vacuous yet skittish.

Romans was due, of course, to the occupation of the city by Fimbria and Flaccus four years earlier, when they-appointed by the government of Cinna-had decided to head for Asia and a war with Mithridates rather than for Greece and a war with Sulla.

I have been blamed by some for the fact that King Mithridates is at large to commence this third war against Rome because I refused to aid Fimbria in capturing Mithridates at Pitane, and-it is commonly said-thereby allowed Mithridates the room to escape.

Wool from Almark, amber from Forlassen, furs from Fimbria, iron from Astarac, timber from the tall woods of Gabrion, best in the world for the building of ships.

There are untold tens of thousands of them in Fimbria contributing nothing to the defence of the continent.

Narbukan Fimbria, it was true, had opened itself to the outside world after the schism with the rest of the electorates, but as a result it was no longer seen as truly Fimbrian.

We sit here as the de facto rulers of Fimbria, and are able to authorize any course of action we see fit.

Golophin must have suspected that there was something afoot in Fimbria, for it was he who advised me to sound out the electorates.

Only Fimbria, in her heyday, had ever governed a tract of land so large, and the men who had had this awesome responsibility thrust so precipitately upon their shoulders were clerics, priests with no experience in governance.

And in Fimbria there was some kind of mind-set which seemed to militate against our folk from the earliest times.

Only yesterday a delegation had arrived from Fimbria, of all places, with an escort of forty sable-clad pikemen.