flutings in English

noun
1
sound reminiscent of that of a flute.
the silvery fluting of a blackbird
2
a groove or set of grooves forming a surface decoration.
a hollow stem with vertical flutings
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1. Six Caryatides, or marble women, clad in flowing robes, support the portico of the Temple of Hercules, but the porticos and colonnades of the other structures are formed of massive Doric and Ionic pillars, whose flutings and capitals are still measurably perfect, notwithstanding the centuries that have gone over them and the sieges they have suffered.