selvaged

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

sel•vage  (sel′vij), n. 

1. Textiles the edge of woven fabric finished so as to prevent raveling, often in a narrow tape effect, different from the body of the fabric.
2. any similar strip or part of surplus material, as at the side of wallpaper.
3. Stamps Also called margin. [Philately.] the surplus paper or margin around a sheet of stamps:
   The number of the plate block appears in the selvage.
4. Building a plate or surface through which a bolt of a lock passes.

Also, sel′vedge. 

• late Middle English, respelling, respelled of self + edge, modeled on Middle Dutch selfegghe (Dutch zelfegge) 1425–75

sel′vaged, adj.