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
The inner side of the trefoil is cusped, crockets and finials enrich the outer moulding of the opening, while beyond the jambs are niches, now empty.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
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 William Henry Hamilton Rogers
A fine loggia, with cusped arches and quatrefoils above, runs round both the exposed sides of the Palace.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
These windows form two sides of a small square summer-house; their shafts have capitals like those of the dining-room windows at Cintra, and the horseshoe arches are, as usual, cusped.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
