fluted, ppl. a.
(ˈfluːtɪd)
[f. flute n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. Having, furnished, or ornamented with flutes, channels, or grooves. fluted-scale (Entomol.) = cushion-scale. fluted spectrum, one in which the spectrum lines appear to be grouped in flutes.
| 1611 Cotgr., Canelé, channelled, fluted, furrowed, straked. 1717 Berkeley Tour in Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 531 Four noble fluted pillars. 1801 Southey Thalaba vi. xx, And fluted cypresses rear'd up Their living obelisks. 1835 Ure Philos. Manuf. 121 United on one fluted portion of the rollers. 1881 N. Lockyer in Nature No. 614. 318 Iodine vapour..gives us this fluted spectrum. 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Fluted Ruche..is composed of single Box-pleats stitched to a certain depth inwards so as to leave the edges of the pleats loose. |
2. Music. (See quot. 1828.)
| 1787 Beckford Italy II. 240 All the nauseous sweetness of a fluted falsetto. 1828 Busby Music. Man. s.v., When the upper notes of a soprano voice are of a thin and flute-like tone, they are said to be Fluted. 1879 E. Arnold Lt. Asia vi. xxvi, The koil's fluted song, the bulbul's hymn. |