fluted

English

Etymology

From flute +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fluted (comparative more fluted, superlative most fluted)

  1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
    Synonym: grooved
    • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
      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.
  2. (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

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Verb

fluted

  1. simple past and past participle of flute
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