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Fringe

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The Jews wore fringes to their garments. These fringes on the garments of the priests were accounted sacred, and were touched by the common people as a charm. Hence the desire of the woman who had the issue of blood to touch the fringe of our Lord’s garment. (Matt. ix. 20–22.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Friend (A)
Friend at Court
Friend in Need (A)
Friend of Man
Friends … Enemies
Friendly Suit (A)
Friendship (Examples of):
Friendships Broken (Eng. Hist.):
Frigga
Frilingi
Fringe
Frippery
Frisket
Frith
Frithiof (pron. Frit-yoff)
Frithiof’s Sword
Fritz (Old Fritz)
Frog
Frog’s March
Frogs
Frollo (Archdeacon Claude)