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flute

[floot] / flut /






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Near Darkness lurks a table laden with sugar-crusted fruit and an elaborately stemmed flute holding what looks like champagne.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

"We got a lot of champagne and some flute glasses from my boss at work, which were nice, but we have a lot of that so it will most likely get regifted," she says.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

In Mozart’s opera, Tamino, a prince in a fairyland of mystic temples and mystifying gods, relies on his supernatural flute that turn sorrow into joy to get him out of jams.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

She teaches flute at five universities in Iowa as an adjunct professor and performs in three orchestras.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

Ophie carried a tray of champagne flutes very carefully, holding the silver tray with both hands as the Carutherses’ various cousins each took a flute, exclaiming over having champagne.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Back in the members’ club, surrounded by budding Renaissance men clinking Champagne flutes, Peter Mignacca announced that he was here for practical tips.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC May 16, 2026

Champagne flutes clinked as the president and the King raised toasts to one another, celebrating the deep-rooted ties and shared history between the countries.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2026

Her flutes — from piccolo to bass and all in between — and friends became magic makers in this numinous physical and musical landscape.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2025

For everywhere the dance of maidens swayed and the clear call of the lyre sounded and the ringing notes of flutes.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Its details are sharply chiseled and fluted, in the Streamline Moderne mode, and they turn what would otherwise be raw construction into lyrical architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

Custom kitchens designed by Christopher Peacock are encased in wood and fluted glass cabinetry with 2-inch-thick Calacatta marble on the kitchen islands.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

And there were, of course, the signature grandfather clocks that made Howard Miller famous, both traditional designs of fluted hardwood and contemporary deconstructions with visible gears.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2025

The building’s fluted Corinthian columns are right at home in neoclassical Washington, but they aren’t a match with the rest of the White House, with its simpler, smooth columns and Ionic capitals.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2025

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

International Paper customers choose from a fluting guide that extends from A-flute at the thickest to so-called microflutes like E and F.

From New York Times Nov. 28, 2022

A couple of employees are in the music business, which helps explain the aural entertainment; dinner tastes better with Herbie Mann fluting through “Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty.”

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2022

For Honoré, personally, parietal art includes paintings and engravings made on rock, but would exclude markings like finger fluting or the Quesang prints, and some other archaeologists hold the same view.

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

There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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