fluting

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.