ppl. a. [f. FLUTE sb.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., Canulé, channelled, fluted, furrowed, straked.
1717. Berkeley, Tour in Italy, Wks. 1871, IV. 531–2. Four noble fluted pillars of bronze-gilt in an altar of the church in one end of the same, which was built by Constantine.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VI. xx.
| And fluted cypresses rear’d up | |
| Their living obelisks. |
1835. Ure, Philos. Manuf., 121. From three to six slivers may be brought together, and united on one fluted portion of the rollers.
1881. N. Lockyer, in Nature, XXIV. No. 614, 4 Aug., 318/1. With regard to these flutings, we can take iodine vapour, which gives us this fluted spectrum.
1882. Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, Fluted Ruche.—Otherwise called by the French name of Ruche à la Vielle. It 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. Another hob-e-di-hoy, tottering on high-heeled shoes, represented her Egyptian majesty, and warbled two airs with all the nauseous sweetness of a fluted falsetto.
1828. T. 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.
| Whereat there piped anthems of all the birds, | |
| The Koil’s fluted song, the Bulbul’s hymn. |
