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

Its columns support round arches that are surmounted in piers by crocketed gables, pierced and cusped.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

Here, however, these are Gothic, with trefoil cusped arches, developing in the topmost to cinquefoil, and giving an air of elegance to the whole that is lacking in the Cathedral.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

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

A fine loggia, with cusped arches and quatrefoils above, runs round both the exposed sides of the Palace.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe