fluting

[ floo-ting ]

/ ˈflu tɪŋ /

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noun

something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.

a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.

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Origin of fluting

First recorded in 1475–85; flute + -ing¹

Words nearby fluting

flustrated, flute, fluted, fluter, flutey, fluting, flutist, flutter, flutterboard, flutter-fibrillation, flutter kick

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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 Norton
As he moved, a bit of gilt fluting dipped forward out of the gloom of the chimney-corner.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
The fluting of the Doric column will thus be finished in the style appropriate to it.
Ten Books on Architecture|Vitruvius
Even Emmie's faint fluting came out more effectively, and Val could easier have wept than gone on singing.
The Open Question|Elizabeth Robins

It 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

fluting

/ (ˈfluːtɪŋ) /

noun

a design or decoration of flutes on a column, pilaster, etc

grooves or furrows, as in cloth

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