Meaning of Fluting | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
2. The act of making such grooves.
3. A flute-like sound.
4. A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment.
5. The erosional process by which a well-jointed coarse-grained rock, such as granite or gneiss, surface develops a set of flutes.

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“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.”

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