dado

American  

[day-doh] / ˈdeɪ doʊ /

noun

• dadoes,
  plural
• dados
  plural

1. Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.

2. the lower broad part of an interior wall finished in wallpaper, a fabric, paint, etc.

3. Carpentry. a groove or rectangular section for receiving the end of a board.

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verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a dado.

verb phrase

1. dado in to insert (a board or the like) into a dado.

dado British  

/ ˈdeɪdəʊ /

noun

1. the lower part of an interior wall that is decorated differently from the upper part

2. architect the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice

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verb

1. (tr) to provide with a dado

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dadoes
  plural
• dados
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dado

1655–65; < Italian: die, cube, pedestal, perhaps < Arabic dad game

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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Mr MacKellor added: "We weren't expecting to find much, but we did find quite a lot of stone flagged floors, timber dado panelling and working window shutters."

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021

Raposo de Mello, ex-presidente da Anvisa, revelou que ficou atônito diante da mudança de orientação de Adams, dado o apoio de longa data do Advogado-Geral à Anvisa.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2017

For the interiors he chose bottle green tiles up to a decorative dado of acanthus leaves or pomegranate, details which remain in many of his stations today.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2011

Kirstie Allsopp would doubtless get all prissy about the lack of dado rails, but I find it impossible not to warm to a place like that.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010

I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

Dipping into them revives odd memories — lambrequins and dadoes — gilded rolling-pins, dudes, croquet, the high-wheel bicycle, the game of Boston — a departed age.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the long dadoes are carved elaborately and of exquisite workmanship, and the fretted ceilings are charming in design and colouring.

From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by P?ter Vay

In these rooms there should be panels above the dadoes, worked in black, and polished, with yellow ochre or vermilion blocks interposed between them.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

In this way all the dadoes will be finished at exactly the same depth.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

After fitting these, lay out and cut the dadoes for the back of the drawer.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Inspired by 19th-century Beaux-Arts proportions, the walls have simplified Classical cornices and dados, creating a sense of the grand, domestic proportions that were the original backdrop for many of these canvases decades ago.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2012

The symbols of his cult were familiar to London's streets and salons—peacock feathers, sunflowers, dados, blue china, long hair, velveteen breeches.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is art indeed—art in the mind and soul, infinitely deeper, surely, than the construction of crockery, jugs for the mantelpiece, dados, or even of paintings.

From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

Although first used in this way, coloured marbles were gradually employed for the interior decoration of houses, for columns, dados, and friezes.

From Rome by Hope Malleson

The walls were embellished with dados of bright coloured tiles and the floors paved with black and white marble.

From Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century by Montague Massey

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