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Adjective

fluted (comparative more fluted, superlative most fluted)

• Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
  • ✤ Synonyms: grooved, striated
  • ✤ 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.¹
  • ✤ 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.²
  • ✤ 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.”³
• (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
  • ✤ Synonyms: see Thesaurus: drunk

Verb

fluted

• simple past and past participle of flute

Etymology

From flute + -ed.

Pronunciation

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Footnotes

1. 1847, editorial staff, “Washing Machine”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68: ↩

2. 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia ‎${}^{[1]}$, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company: ↩

3. 2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000mahoganydiningset”,in\ast CNN\ast ‎$^{[2]}$, archived from the original on 2 December 2022: ↩