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fluting

[ floo-ting ]

noun

  1. something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.
  2. a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.


fluting

/ ˈfluːtɪŋ /

noun

  1. a design or decoration of flutes on a column, pilaster, etc
  2. grooves or furrows, as in cloth
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fluting1

First recorded in 1475–85; flute + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

This was no high-pitched fluting from aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry.

As he moved, a bit of gilt fluting dipped forward out of the gloom of the chimney-corner.

The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.

Even Emmie's faint fluting came out more effectively, and Val could easier have wept than gone on singing.

It shot forth from the central fluting of a column that supported the pediment of the bookcase.

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