fluting
something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.
a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.
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How to use fluting in a sentence
This was no high-pitched fluting from aliens deprived of their sport, but a hissing nightmare cry.
Star Born | Andre NortonAs he moved, a bit of gilt fluting dipped forward out of the gloom of the chimney-corner.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsThe fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.
Ten Books on Architecture | VitruviusEven Emmie's faint fluting came out more effectively, and Val could easier have wept than gone on singing.
The Open Question | Elizabeth RobinsIt shot forth from the central fluting of a column that supported the pediment of the bookcase.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar | Maurice Leblanc
British Dictionary definitions for fluting
/ (ˈfluːtɪŋ) /
a design or decoration of flutes on a column, pilaster, etc
grooves or furrows, as in cloth
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