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fluting

[floo-ting]

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noun

something having ornamental grooves, as a Greek column.

a groove, furrow, or flute, or a series of these.

Origin:
1475–85; flute + -ing¹

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noun

a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder.

an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.

Architecture, Furniture. a channel, groove, or furrow, as on the shaft of a column.

any groove or furrow, as in a ruffle of cloth or on a piecrust.

one of the helical grooves of a twist drill.

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a slender, footed wineglass of the 17th century, having a tall, conical bowl.

a similar stemmed glass, used especially for champagne.

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verb (used without object)

to produce flutelike sounds.

to play on a flute.

10.

(of a metal strip or sheet) to kink or break in bending.

verb (used with object)

11.

to utter in flutelike tones.

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to form longitudinal flutes or furrows in: to flute a piecrust.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English floute < Middle French flaüte, flahute, fleüte < Old Provençal flaüt (perhaps alteration of flaujol, flauja) < Vulgar Latin *flabeolum. See flageolet, lute

Related forms

flute·like, adjective

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fluting (ˈfluːtɪŋ)

—n
1.	a design or decoration of flutes on a column, pilaster, etc
2.	grooves or furrows, as in cloth

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Word Origin & History

flute

late 14c., from O.Fr. flaute, from O.Prov. flaut, of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative or from L. flare "to blow;" perhaps influenced by Prov. laut "lute." The other Germanic words (cf. Ger. flöte) are likewise borrowings from French. Ancient flutes were blown through a mouthpiece, like a recorder;

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the modern transverse or German flute developed 18c. The modern design and key system of the concert flute were perfected 1834 by Theobald Boehm. The architectural sense of "furrow in a pillar" (1650s) is from fancied resemblance to the inside of a flute split down the middle. Meaning "tall, slender wine glass" is from 1640s. The verb is recorded from late 14c. in sense "to play upon the flute;" meaning "to make (architectural) flutes" is from 1570s. Related: Fluted; fluting.

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