Adjective
Having flutes or grooves, either for decoration or to trim weight.
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Mr. W. Younger, of Huntington, Tenn., has invented a new washing machine, which by a rotary motion of a driving roller, he has combined a toothed roller and a fluted one and a rubbing board.
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.
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.”
Drunk; intoxicated.
Usage- Ireland
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