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
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
But very few of them have any noticeable quantity behind their dadoes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various
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
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
