fringer noun4 •A person who makes fringes for garments •One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival) •A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in generalThe region was remote; the early explorers were pirates, fugitives and fringers, followed by miscellaneous settlers, to the effect that Camberwell had been inhabited for many thousands of years. — 1998 •A device for making paper fringes formsfringers