fluted

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Definition of fluted

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
    “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.”
    “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.””
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adj

  1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
    “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.”
    “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.””
  2. (Ireland, slang)Drunk; intoxicated.

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of flute

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Etymology

From flute + -ed.

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