cusped
Americanadjective
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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 Walter Crum Watson
Their double arches are subdivided by small Byzantine columns; these again are framed within larger cusped and differently broken horseshoe curves.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
Here, however, these are Gothic, with trefoil cusped arches, developing in the topmost to cinquefoil, and giving an air of elegance to the whole that is lacking in the Cathedral.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
The arches are cusped like the windows, but are stilted and segmental.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
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