Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes fringes for garments 2 (context scrapbooks English) A device for making paper fringes 3 One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival) 4 A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in general
Usage examples of "fringer".
It was a persistent fissure in their alliance with the Heart Worlds - which had been too rich and too safe for too long - and their one patch of common ground with the despised Fringers.
It was a persistent fissure in their alliance with the Heart Worlds -- which had been too rich and too safe for too long -- and their one patch of common ground with the despised Fringers.
The other was Simon Taliaferro, possibly the man the Fringers hated most of all.
Colin had declared his sympathy for the Fringers, and Trevayne reacted with fury.
The Corporate Worlds had been wrong to accuse the Fringers of "xenophobia,"
Why, we're right in the middle of the Northeast Corridor Conurbation, and that's a sort of jungle Fringers aren't well equipped to deal with.
For all the time and effort they spent plotting and planning, they were even blinder than the insulated Heart Worlders, for they saw Fringers only as obstacles, not as people, and certainly not as fellow citizens.
You're not a Fringer, so maybe you don't see it that way, but the Fringers do.
My engineer contacted a buddy in the orbit port and suggested most of the Fringers in our crew were on their side and ready to mutiny against me with a little help from their "Marines".
Now their officers were caught between their oaths and the dreadful prospect of turning their weapons on fellow Fringers, and it was intolerable.
Desperate men and women had met, and the Fringers among his crews had risen against him.
If the Fringers are barbarians, you will find those ships here, striking the Innerwords, and you will find those weapons turning your precious planets into cinders.
His personnel, even the Fringers, knew and trusted him, and his captains had been loyal to a man (or woman, as the ease might be).
The Corporate Worlds had been wrong to accuse the Fringers of "xenophobia," but there was no doubting the Outworlders' grim determination to remain independent of the Orions.
Innerworlders have been insulated from the realities of warfare, and, frankly, they didn't have the initial personal commitment the Fringers had.