- present participle of flute.
fluting
Americannoun
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something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.
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a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.
noun
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a design or decoration of flutes on a column, pilaster, etc
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grooves or furrows, as in cloth
Etymology
Origin of fluting
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A couple of employees are in the music business, which helps explain the aural entertainment; dinner tastes better with Herbie Mann fluting through “Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 24, 2022
Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
Grant based her character on her own mother and aunt, ladies with high, fluting voices and a “wonderful, ridiculous part to them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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