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

At about the level of the pendant the open space is crossed by a cusped segmental arch supporting elaborate flowing tracery.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The arch of the canopy is depressed, and cusped, with roses on the bosses of the points.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry 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