bordering

bordering

1. present participle and gerund of border

bordering (not comparable)

1. Having a common boundary or border

   France and Spain are bordering nations.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:

     King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage.

• border on

bordering (plural borderings)

1. A pattern or ornament forming a border.
   • 1874, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine:

     White silk borderings and silver buckles.