fluting
fluting Lexical Profile
fluting Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A series of shallow, rounded vertical grooves or channels carved along the shaft of an architectural column, pilaster, or piece of furniture.
"The classical marble columns were adorned with deep vertical fluting that caught the afternoon light."
Ornamental pleating or ruffling of fabric, or a decorative crimped edge on a pastry crust.
"The baker carefully pinched the dough to create delicate fluting around the rim of the tart shell."
The corrugated, wave-shaped paper layer sandwiched between flat linerboards in cardboard.
"Heavy-duty shipping boxes use thicker fluting to cushion fragile goods during transit."
The act of playing a flute, or a clear, high-pitched, melodious sound resembling that of a flute.
"The soft fluting of thrushes echoed through the quiet woodland at dawn."
• Rhymes for fluting
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed from the verb 'flute' plus the suffix '-ing'; the architectural sense derives from the resemblance of the long, rounded grooves on classical columns to the longitudinal half of a flute.