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fluting

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1. fluting - Noun

2. fluting - Adjective

3. fluting - Verb

Meaning

of Flute

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.

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Love is made out of ecstasy and wonder; Love is a poignant and accustomed pain. It is a burst of Heaven-shaking thunder; It is a linnet's fluting after rain. Joyce Kilmer

Alternatively, beading or chains of husks may take the place of the fillets in the fluting, for Corinthian is the most playful and flexible of the orders. Source: Internet

A rifle is so named for the spiral fluting ( rifling ) carved into the inner surface of its barrel, which imparts a self-stabilizing spin to the single bullets it fires. Source: Internet

Doric columns are almost always cut with grooves, known as "fluting", which run the length of the column and are usually 20 in number, although sometimes fewer. Source: Internet

Kamath (2001), p136 Most Hoysala temples have a plain covered entrance porch supported by lathe turned (circular or bell-shaped) pillars which were sometimes further carved with deep fluting and moulded with decorative motifs. Source: Internet

During the Hellenistic period, Corinthian columns were sometimes built without fluting. Source: Internet

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