flutings

It had little creases on the outside, "flutings," Mother said, like the pleats in her dress.

Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

Voices -- made of thinnest platinum -- that sang, the calls and flutings of invisible birds, nacre-spun nightingales and hawks of hollow electrum.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

Round dress of fine cambric, under a pelisse of emerald-green reps sarsnet, ornamented and faced with flutings of green and white satin, elegantly finished by British silk trimming; the waist girt by a rich silk cordon of the same manufacture, with full tassels.

Archive 2009-04-01 Michele Ann Young 2009

Round dress of fine cambric, under a pelisse of emerald-green reps sarsnet, ornamented and faced with flutings of green and white satin, elegantly finished by British silk trimming; the waist girt by a rich silk cordon of the same manufacture, with full tassels.

Regency Fashion ~ April Michele Ann Young 2009

Like the flutings of doves in love, the voices of presidential candidates sweeten the air.

A Guide To 1996 Numbers 2008

Louis XV. (it is enough to say that its exterior decoration consisted of a stone drapery beneath the windows, as in the colonnades of the Place Louis XV., the flutings of which were stiff and ungainly), had on the ground-floor a fine salon opening into a bedroom, and a dining-room connected with a billiard-room.

A Start in Life 2007

The column has forty-four flutings and six drums; it rises to a height of approximately forty feet, or forty-one and a half at the wing-tips.

See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

Set at intervals between them were what looked like octagonal rosettes filled with slender silvery flutings, wan striations — like — it came to me — immense chrysanthemum buds, half opened, and carved in gray jade.

The Metal Monster 2004

I frequently lost sight of her behind me, since the rock flutings that featured the mountainside stood in my line of sight.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

The peak is known for the Knife Ridge; a hundred-yard-long ridge at 13,500 feet that drops fifteen hundred feet away to the east, down steeply corniced flutings that end high above the Pierre Lakes Basin, and twenty-five hundred feet down the west side to Capitol Lake.

127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004