fluting
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That fluting is what gives a cardboard box its protective quality; without its flutes, corrugate wouldn’t be corrugate at all — it would just be containerboard.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022
Both children and adults are thought to have participated in finger fluting, and similarly, Bennett said that the Quesang prints should also be considered art.
From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2021
Mirianashvili opted for a standard drinking glass, the kind with fluting at the base and a wide band near the rim.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
Often, her fluting or tapering forms travel through one another from inside to outside and back again.
From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2018
The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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