Associations to the word «Fluting»

Wiktionary

FLUTING, verb. Present participle of flute
FLUTING, noun. (architecture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface
FLUTING, noun. The act of making such grooves

Dictionary definition

FLUTING, noun. A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope