dado
noun
the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
dadoes
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pluralof dado.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
After all these pieces have been squared up and the mill-marks removed, the dadoes or grooves and gains may be laid out and cut.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
This double triangle is not only a constant symbol on wedding blankets, but also is found on the dadoes of houses, resembling in design the arrangement of tiles in the Alhambra and other Moorish buildings.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
