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 recessed portion rises to twice or three times the height of the door, and its pointed or cusped head is always filled by a rich stalactite vault.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

Though not so high, the canopy over the Virgin is far more intricate as it forms a great curve made up of seven little cusped arches with innumerable pinnacles and spires.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

They are cusped at the top, and at the springing two smaller cusped arches are thrown across to a pinnacled shaft in the centre.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

There was no illusion to being there: rain cusped out of sky: the snow fell: it was a bitter time to see the place, a blastment.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander