fly fringe (flifrinj)

A trimming for women's dre es worn toward the close of the eighteenth century. It was made of flo -silk, the spreading and projecting ta els of which were supposed to resemble flies. fly-gallery (fli'gal"e-ri), n. One of several galleries on either side of the flies of a theater, varying in number according to the size of the house. The drop-scenes and borders are worked from the fly-galleries. 2295