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
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.
Over them rises a beautiful pyramidal canopy, cusped below, flanked by pinnacles rising from the ground, the whole richly foliaged and finialed.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
In the outer wall of the intermediate aisle is a triforium, formed by an arcade of cusped arches, and above this, quite close to the point of the vault, a rose window in each bay.
From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.
The octagon above has buttresses with ordinary pinnacles at each corner, a parapet like that below, and flying buttresses, all pierced, cusped and crocketed like those at the west front.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
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