cusping

[ kuhs-ping ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Architecture. decoration in the form of a cusp, a pair of curves that are tangent to a real or imaginary line defining an area being decorated and that meet at a point within that area:
Three-leaved motifs are cut into the jamb outside each inner and outer point of the cusping.

Origin of cusping¹

First recorded in 1795–1805

The west gable is fringed with cusping—a very unhappy scheme for a coping-line against the sky!

The tracery has soffeit-cusping, and there is a peculiarity here which is seen also in the clerestory at Burgos.

The heads of the lights throughout the windows are uncusped, the cusping being confined to the traceries.

Their shafts and archivolts are very richly twisted and carved, and the cusping of the inner arch is of a rare kind.

Near it is a double piscina, formed by a couple of shafts with capitals hollowed out with multifoil cusping.

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