fluted

From flute + -ed.

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fluted (comparative more fluted, superlative most fluted)

1. Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.

   Synonyms: grooved, striated

   • 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.

   • 2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 2 December 2022:

     The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”

2. (Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

fluted

1. simple past and past participle of flute