From well-moulded jambs, each of which has four shafts, there springs a large pointed arch, richly fringed with cusping on its inner side.
The cusping of the round arch came up from the south; it was suggested to the Comacines by the Saracenic architecture, as a variety on their usual twin archlets under a round arch, and was used some time before they adopted the pointed arch.
Between the solid Lombard round arch and the pointed traceried one stands the cusping of the circular arch.
It was built probably in the early part of the fourteenth century, and has good traceried windows, generally of four lights, but blocked up, and with all their cusping destroyed.
These were altered in the fifteenth century by the addition of a fringe of cusping on the edge of their copings, which of course spoilt their effect, though this is not of much consequence now, as they are never seen.
The cusping of the arcade is not enclosed within an arch, and takes a distinctly horseshoe outline, the lowest cusp near to the cap spreading inwards at the base.
Their shafts and archivolts are very richly twisted and carved, and the cusping of the inner arch is of a rare kind.
The outside moulding consists of a bold bowtell, with another arranged in continuous cusping in front of it, as in some of our own transitional work.
The circular windows above the triforium are filled in with cusping of various patterns.
The arches into the transepts have a fringe of cusping on their under sides, which has a very Moorish air, and the transepts are vaulted with waggon-vaults, but at a lower level than the nave.
The heads of the lights throughout the windows are uncusped, the cusping being confined to the traceries.
In trefoils, for instance, the upper cusp is usually smaller than the lower; and in all good cusping it must be so.
In the great arch of the porch the outer moulding is of red marble, and all the cusping of grey.
The mouldings are elaborate, and the way in which cusping is formed singularly successful.
Jacobean balusters of elegant contour surmount panels treated in the Gothic manner and finished at the top with cusping and foliated spandrils.
The character of the cusping changed again, the cusps becoming club-headed in their form (Fig.
The vaulting surfaces in these are portions of hollow conoids, and are covered by a net-work of fine ribs, connected together by bands of cusping (Fig.
Cusping and foliation (which see) are features of tracery.
The cusping has gone from the tracery, a sure mark of decay of the style.
They have the bowing ogees, the compound cusping, the intersecting wavy tracery of the first half of the fourteenth century; yet the cusping and tracery are not in the early manner.
The exuberance of earlier design is present in the cusping and the crockets; notice how the crockets vary from bay to bay, one set being actually composed of hawks.
The cusping of the upper ogee arches is compound; the foliage of pronounced bulbous character.
The cusping of the arcade is not enclosed within an arch, and takes a distinctly horse-shoe outline, the lowest cusp near to the cap spreading inwards at the base.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cusping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
