fluted

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — flute sits at #5,733mostly written

Fluted means marked with long rounded grooves. A fluted column.

The grooves catch light and shadow, which makes a column look slimmer and taller. Fluted glasses keep the bubbles in champagne, which is a practical rather than decorative reason.

Definitions of fluted

1adjectiveflutedMarked with long rounded grooves.C1
“Every fluted column in the hall had been cut by hand.”

fluted is a quality.

Where it comes from

oc-pro-old
flaut
Old French
flaute
Middle English
fleute
English
flute
English, today
fluted

From flute + -ed. flute comes from Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from oc-pro-old flaut, of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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fluted in the wild

Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture.
Clovis point
Clovis fluted points are named after the city of Clovis, New Mexico, where examples were first found in 1929 by Ridgely Whiteman.
Clovis point
The fluted gourd grows in many nations of West Africa, but is mainly cultivated in southeastern Nigeria and it is used primarily in soups and herbal medicines.
Telfairia occidentalis
Maximilian armour combined the rounded Italian style of armour with the German fluted style.
Maximilian armour
Tridacna squamosa, known commonly as the fluted giant clam and scaly clam, is a species of bivalve in the family Cardiidae.
Tridacna squamosa

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Related words

the flaut family

flute

fluted — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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