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 pedestal is carved out on its sides into niches, having cusped tracery heads.
From Addresses & Papers / Collectanea by Eade, Peter
The wall terminates with a carved quarter-roll moulding and a balustrade with cusped round arches above coupled colonnettes.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
A fine loggia, with cusped arches and quatrefoils above, runs round both the exposed sides of the Palace.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
The tail, for instance, which in most modern fruit-bats is rudimentary, with only three or four vertebrae, in the fossil has eight complete vertebrae; while the teeth of the 247 extinct form are distinctly cusped.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
