dado

American  

[dey-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

Etymology

Origin of dado

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dado dadoes dados

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

Instead, there’s the drooling over the castle’s opulence, the visual caress of every chandelier and gold-leaf dado rail.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017

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

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

Both are desirable maisonettes, though the tenants of 105a have the sole enjoyment of the lincrusta dadoes in the original dining-room.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman

Round about the said sarcophagus will be placed six dadoes or pedestals, on which six figures of the same dimensions will sit.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds

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

I will confess that it did occur to me at first to put through the whole business at one fell swoop—house, wall-papers, dados, chandeliers, carpets, and curtains.

From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Robert Grant

Above the dados were two windows of the meanest and most debased Gothic.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

Venetian, or solid, marquetry may be applied with the aid of stencils, to large surfaces, such as the panels of doors, and dados.

From St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various