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

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

Each of these arches is cusped and foliated differently according to the nature of the figure subject it contains.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The clerestory rises above, divided by marvelously slender shafts into six compartments and three cusped circles in the apex of the arch.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

It is formed of double divisions of three pointed and cusped arches, which on the west wall are increased to groups of four each.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe