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Fluting

noun
1.
A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column).  Synonym: flute.






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"Fluting" Quotes from Famous Books



... limit of the hills! Till the blue cup of music spills Into the boughs of lowland trees; Till thence the lowland singings creep Into the silenced shepherd's head, Creep drowsily through his blood: The young thrush fluting all he knows, The ring-dove moaning his false woes, Almost the rabbit's tiny tread, ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various

... became the capital of the world, showed a succession of glittering spires and orders of architecture, some of them chaste and simple, like those the capitals of which were borrowed from baskets-full of acanthus; some deriving the fluting of their shafts from the props made originally to support the lances of the earlier Greeks—forms simple, yet more graceful in their simplicity, than any which human ingenuity has been able since to invent. With the most splendid specimens ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott



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