cusped
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- uncusped adjective
Etymology
Origin of cusped
Example Sentences
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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
It is formed of double divisions of three pointed and cusped arches, which on the west wall are increased to groups of four each.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
Look if the arches are cusped, or apertures foliated.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John
It was to have been in two volumes folio, with new cusped initials and heraldic ornament throughout.
From The Art and Craft of Printing by Morris, William
They are cusped at the top, and at the springing two smaller cusped arches are thrown across to a pinnacled shaft in the centre.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
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