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Glossary · C

Cusp

Also called cusps, cusped, cusping

The point where two foils meet in tracery, projecting inward.

See also: Foil

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Cupola · Curtain wall · Curvilinear tracery · Cushion capital · Cyclopean masonry · Cyma recta · Cyma reversa · Dancheong