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Fluted

adj, verb, slang

Definitions

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

    "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."

  2. 2
    Drunk; intoxicated. Ireland, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of flute form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From flute + -ed.

Etymology 2

From flute + -ed.

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