fluting

Press one stack of the rectangles into each well of the muffin pan, folding or fluting the edges slightly to make an attractive cup.

There’s a top and a bottom, and between them is a bunch of ridged or diagonally reinforced filler called “fluting.”

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.”

The asteroid that brought that cacophony to a cataclysmic end made room for the expansion of fluting birds.

Zegler, whose petite frame and childlike expressions give Maria an extra air of innocence, possesses a fluting soprano that is captivating and of a piece with her character’s naivete.