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 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)
Its columns support round arches that are surmounted in piers by crocketed gables, pierced and cusped.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
Inside the arcading differs in the two transepts; in the south and older one the pointed arches are plain, while on the north they are cusped.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.
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.
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