cusped

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A team of researchers found that the edges of spinning skirts experience accelerations “of about four times Earth gravity”, reporting that the skirts “carry cusped wave patterns which seem to defy gravity and common sense.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2019

It was to have been in two volumes folio, with new cusped initials and heraldic ornament throughout.

From The Art and Craft of Printing by Morris, William

The window openings are, as a rule, cusped.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

No fragment of the period is preserved, in which the windows, be they few or many, a group of three or an arcade of thirty, have not the noble cusped arch of the fifth order.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

Over them rises a beautiful pyramidal canopy, cusped below, flanked by pinnacles rising from the ground, the whole richly foliaged and finialed.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton