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
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
In other parts of the same house the ceilings, the friezes, and the dados, were covered with 'embossed' or 'relief' papers.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Above the dados were two windows of the meanest and most debased Gothic.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
