dados
- plural of dado.
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 church was painted white inside, with frescoes and dados of gaudy hues, and windows of brilliantly colored glass.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
Some of the dados will be of inlaid stone, tiles, and that sort of thing.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Cambridge, Ada
"Where are you bound for in that fashion, Thibaut, Tybalde ad dados, with your back turned to the university, and trotting towards the town?"
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
