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

In the centre a doubly cusped circle is surrounded by twelve radiating openings, whose trefoiled heads abut against twelve other broad trefoils, which are rather curiously run into the mouldings of the containing circle.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

In the outer wall of the intermediate aisle is a triforium, formed by an arcade of cusped arches, and above this, quite close to the point of the vault, a rose window in each bay.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

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.

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.