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 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 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.

The stage above has tall square-headed windows, with reticulated tracery in the heads of cusped circles or quatrefoils, and two lights below with central colonnette.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

Pointed arches were also constantly employed as well as the form known as cusped, that is to say one with a triangular projection springing from the inner curve.

From Architecture by Bell, Nancy R E Meugens