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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
selvedge /ˈsɛlvɪdʒ/ (chiefly N. Amer. also selvage)

▶noun

1 an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unravelling.

2 Geology a zone of altered rock at the edge of a rock mass.

– origin ME: from an alt. of self + edge, on the pattern of early mod. Du. selfegghe.

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