fluting

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Mar. 24, 2022

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

Grant based her character on her own mother and aunt, ladies with high, fluting voices and a “wonderful, ridiculous part to them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2017

Under the cacophony of foreign tongues, he heard queer music playing from somewhere up ahead, a thin high fluting accompanied by drums.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin