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

No fragment of the period is preserved, in which the windows, be they few or many, a group of three or an arcade of thirty, have not the noble cusped arch of the fifth order.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

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)

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)