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 Ruskin, John

The octagon above has buttresses with ordinary pinnacles at each corner, a parapet like that below, and flying buttresses, all pierced, cusped and crocketed like those at the west front.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

Pointed arches were also constantly employed as well as the form known as cusped, that is to say one with a triangular projection springing from the inner curve.

From Architecture by Bell, Nancy R E Meugens

The pedestal is carved out on its sides into niches, having cusped tracery heads. 

From Addresses & Papers / Collectanea by Eade, Peter