bordering

A pattern or ornament forming a border.

Adjective

  1. Having a common boundary or border
    • France and Spain are bordering nations.
    • King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage. - 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I...

Related

border on

Noun

  1. A pattern or ornament forming a border.
    • White silk borderings and silver buckles. - 1874, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine:

Forms

borderings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of border