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
Look if the arches are cusped, or apertures foliated.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by John Ruskin
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 William Morris
In the outer wall of the intermediate aisle is a triforium, formed by an arcade of cusped arches, and above this, quite close to the point of the vault, a rose window in each bay.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
The wall terminates with a carved quarter-roll moulding and a balustrade with cusped round arches above coupled colonnettes.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
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