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Flute   /flut/   Listen
Flute

noun
1.
A high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown.  Synonym: transverse flute.
2.
A tall narrow wineglass.  Synonyms: champagne flute, flute glass.
3.
A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column).  Synonym: fluting.
verb
(past & past part. fluted; pres. part. fluting)
1.
Form flutes in.



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"Flute" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a larger sum of money than he had ever before possessed. He took passage for London, where he landed a few days after, in total ignorance of the place and the language. His brother welcomed him with German warmth, and assisted him to procure employment,—probably in the flute and piano manufactory of ...
— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

... the wastes of dune and jungle the sweet flute-like tremolo of an owl broke out, prolonged infinitely. From the dark garden below, a widow-bird called breathlessly, its ghostly cry, now a far whisper in the night, now close at hand, husky, hurried, ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... heard that, sir," said Bassett, more and more perplexed. "It's not in my book, but I remember once reading, when I was at school, that spiders are sometimes attracted by the sound of a flute." ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs

... a great many sheep. And every day Glaucon had to lead the sheep up to pasture on Mount Pelion, and watch them while they ate. There was nothing else to do, and he would have found the time very long, if he had not been able to play on a flute. So he played very often and very beautifully, as he sat under the trees and watched the wonderful blue sea afar off, ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... all must attend, rich and poor, slaves and freemen, strangers and citizens. Judas Thomas went, with his new master, to the banquet and reclined with a garland of myrtle placed on his head. When a Hebrew flute-player came and stood over him and played, he sang the songs of Christ, and it was seen that he was more beautiful than all that were there and the King sent for him to bless the young couple in the bridal chamber. And when all were gone out and the ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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