had fluted

• past perfect

  past perfect

  Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.

  of flute.
  flute

  noun

  a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.

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had fluted

Many of the doorways had fluted pilasters, heavily molded casings and carved43 broken pediments.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

Amzi had fluted in the Schumann Quartette, devoted to chamber music, but his asthma had broken up the club, and he now rarely essayed the instrument.

From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson

At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep.

From Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas père

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