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  • Put a top hat on Jerry or deck out Jimi in an unforgettable white-fringed shirt with blue banding and bell-bottomed blue jeans.

    Buzzine » Woodstock Paper Dolls 2009

  • In fact, Cassidy was the biggest teen idol since Ricky Nelson and Elvis Presley, the latter's white-fringed fashion emulated by the young faux-Partridge during his famed 1972 Madison Square Garden concert (trivia alert: backed-up by vocalist Kim Carnes).

    Mike Ragogna: Partridge Family Ties 2008

  • I saw a big white-fringed specimen run from the lake shore to our next-door neighbor's house.

    Archive 2004-06-01 Michael Evans 2004

  • I saw a big white-fringed specimen run from the lake shore to our next-door neighbor's house.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004

  • I saw a big white-fringed specimen run from the lake shore to our next-door neighbor's house.

    Archive 2004-05-30 Michael Evans 2004

  • Moreau said not a word on the way, but the expression of his heavy, white-fringed face was grimly set.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • At eleven all the Chinese children came forth in carriages shaped like boats, turned up at both ends, painted red and yellow, and with white-fringed canopies over them.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Had she been wearing her white-fringed shawl, she would have snapped it around her.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • In midair they changed shape, landing neatly in human-form, he garbed in bright trousers and cloak, she in white-fringed black dress.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • "You are quite right," the ghost of a smile hovered around the white-fringed lips of the Spaniard, at Jim's innate boyishness.

    Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power Wyn Roosevelt

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