1. decorative grooves or channels cut into a surface, especially vertical grooves on architectural columns
Usage: architecture
2. similar parallel grooves or ridges on various objects or surfaces

Examples

• The classical column featured elegant flutings that caught the morning light.
• The architect specified twenty-four flutings for each marble pillar.
• Ancient Greek temples are famous for their columns with deep flutings.
• The flutings on the wooden post were carved by hand.
• She admired the delicate flutings on the antique furniture leg.
• The flutings gave the surface an interesting textural quality.