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 ajimez windows, the cusped arches, and the decorations of this doorway are fine examples of Almohade art.
From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
The teeth are more sharply cusped, and the lower sectorial wants the inner tubercle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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 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
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