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The cusped arch, too, was it actually not intended to imitate vegetation?

He says that it is merely the special application to the arch of the great ornamental system of foliation, which, "whether simple as in the cusped arch, or complicated as in tracery, arose out of the love of leafage.

I agree that the cusped arch is not meant to imitate a leaf.

If the lower fork has died off, for want of light, we obtain something like the simply cusped arch.

The windows have depressed, distinctly four-centred arches, and in 1730 their five lights had simply cusped heads, the mullions running up to the architrave.

The groining with cusped panels and numerous bosses has escaped restoration.

The method of cusping the drop-arch and the varied treatment of these in nave, choir and transepts are noteworthy while the little quatrefoil at the intersection of mullion and transom is a really happy innovation.