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fluting

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flut·ing  (fltng)
n.
1.
a. Architecture A decorative motif consisting of a series of uniform, usually vertical flutes, as those incised in the surface of a column.
b. The act of incising or making grooves.
2. The grooves formed by narrow pleats in cloth, as in a ruffle.

fluting [ˈfluːtɪŋ]
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a design or decoration of flutes on a column, pilaster, etc.
2. grooves or furrows, as in cloth
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.flutingfluting - a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
groove, channel - a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
Translations
fluting [ˈfluːtɪŋ] adj [voice] → flûté(e)
fluting
n (Archit) → Kannelierung f, → Kanneluren pl; (of border, edge)Bogenform f


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There were tender little fluting sounds here and there and everywhere, as if scores of birds were beginning to tune up for a concert.
Beside the lake The elves are fluting, ting, ting, ting
Most precious of all--the evenings she and her boy had sat in the yard, with the cool south breeze blowing up from the pasture, the cows looking on placidly, the frogs fluting rhythmically in the pond, the birds chirping their good-night calls, and the dip and swell of the farm land pulling at them like a haunting tune, almost too lovely to be endured.
 
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