Fluting

Quick meaning: Fluting is a noun meaning (architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.

Meaning

(architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.

More Meanings

1. The act of making such grooves.
2. A flute-like sound.
3. (fashion) A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
4. The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.
5. Making a sound like a flute.
6. present participle and gerund of flute

Example Sentences

Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches to the rear because of the deeply recessed arrangement of the door.

Word Forms

• flutings

Synonyms for fluting

Depending on context, synonyms include flute.

Related Words

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