dado
noun
the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
dados
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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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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
The dados were decorated with gesso work on a gold ground.
From A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by E. B. Havell
They'll be asking us to put down encaustic tiles upon the floors next, and to paper their walls with Japanese leather or fashionable dados.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
The dados outside the Taj are similar in design to these, though larger and correspondingly bolder in style.
From A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by E. B. Havell
