cusped

[ kuhspt ]

adjective

1. having a cusp or cusps; cusplike.

Other Words From

• un·cusped adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cusped¹

First recorded in 1815–25; cusp + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Use e for your side stones, and you have an arch as that at h below, which may be called a down-cusped arch.

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One step more: I take a mid-cusped side piece in its block form at t, with the bricks which load the back of it.

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On the north wall is a third, and in the south wall a piscina with two-cusped arch and projecting basin.

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Its columns support round arches that are surmounted in piers by crocketed gables, pierced and cusped.

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It is formed of double divisions of three pointed and cusped arches, which on the west wall are increased to groups of four each.

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