fluted
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Adjective
fluted (comparative more fluted, superlative most fluted)
- Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
- 1847, editorial staff, “Washing Machine”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:
- Mr. W. Younger, of Huntington, Tenn., has invented a new washing machine, which by a rotary motion of a driving roller, he has combined a toothed roller and a fluted one and a rubbing board.
- 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
- The cornice only is carried around the room at the ceiling, and in the staircase hall only the cymatium and corona of the cornice; but over the archway, supported by a colonnade of four fluted round columns, a complete entablature with nicely worked classic detail is employed and given added emphasis by several inches' projection into the reception hall.
- 2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 2 December 2022:
- The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”
- (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
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decorated with flutes
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drunk — see drunk
Verb
fluted
- simple past and past participle of flute