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The Collaborative International Dictionary
fringed

decorated \decorated\ adj. having decorations. [Narrower terms: beaded, beady, bejeweled, bejewelled, bespangled, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly; bedaubed; bespectacled, monocled, spectacled; braided; brocaded, embossed, raised; buttony; carbuncled; champleve, cloisonne, enameled; crested, plumed having a decorative plume); crested, top-knotted, topknotted, tufted; crested; embellished, ornamented, ornate; embroidered; encircled, ringed, wreathed; fancied up, gussied, gussied up, tricked out; feathery, feathered, plumy; frilled, frilly, ruffled; fringed; gilt-edged; inflamed; inlaid; inwrought; laced; mosaic, tessellated; paneled, wainscoted; studded; tapestried; tasseled, tasselled; tufted; clinquant, tinseled, tinselly; tricked-out] Also See: clothed, fancy. Antonym: unadorned.

Syn: adorned.

Wiktionary
fringed
  1. Possessing a fringe. v

  2. (en-past of: fringe)

WordNet
fringed
  1. adj. surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination; "a large suburban community...fringed by an industrial area"; "a grass-fringed stream"

  2. having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips

  3. having edges irregularly and finely slashed; "a laciniate leaf" [syn: laciniate]

Usage examples of "fringed".

Even had she not known they could channel, their fringed shawls would have made it certain.

Katerine and the others might well have worn theirs to mark them out clearly at the docks-no one in Tar Valon would bother a woman wearing a fringed shawl, and most kept clear, if they could, particularly men-but why here?

Beside the litter, a dark blot larger than a man’s body marred the green-and-yellow Tairen maze of the fringed carpet.

What surprised her more than her relief, though, was the presence of more than half the Sitters in the Hall standing in front of the writ­ing table in their fringed shawls.