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

Their double arches are subdivided by small Byzantine columns; these again are framed within larger cusped and differently broken horseshoe curves.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

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

There is certainly an air of the grotesque in the combination of Mud�jar windows, cusped arches, columns, and azulejos, and Renaissance and Gothic features.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

The columns employed throughout are antique ones from other buildings, but the whole effect of the structure, which abounds with curiously cusped arches and coloured decoration, is described as most picturesque and fantastic.

From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)