Fluted
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fluted is an adjective meaning Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
Meaning
Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
More Meanings
- (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
- simple past and past participle of flute
Example Sentences
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.”
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.
Synonyms for fluted
Depending on context, synonyms include grooved, striated, adrip, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include filigreed, floriated, fretted, quilled, frilled, frilly.
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