Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Cusps

The projecting points formed where foils meet in Gothic tracery

Latin: "cusis = a point

Patterns formed by cusps: Trefoil ... Quatrefoil ... Cinquefoil ... Sexfoil ... Multifoil

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Examples from Buffalo architecture

• Illustration above: Miller House
  
  
• Asbury Delaware Avenue Methodist Church

• Thomas Crane Monument
  
  
• Hotel Touraine
  
  
• St. Mary of Sorrows / King Urban Life Center
  
  
• The Mansion on Delaware Avenue
  
  
• Stephen M. Clement House / Red Cross
  
  
• 29 Irving Pl.
  
  
• St. Paul's Cathedral

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