dado
Americannoun
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dadoes,
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dados
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Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.
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the lower broad part of an interior wall finished in wallpaper, a fabric, paint, etc.
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Carpentry. a groove or rectangular section for receiving the end of a board.
verb (used with object)
verb phrase
noun
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the lower part of an interior wall that is decorated differently from the upper part
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architect the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice
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Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of dado
1655–65; < Italian: die, cube, pedestal, perhaps < Arabic dad game
Example Sentences
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Mr MacKellor added: "We weren't expecting to find much, but we did find quite a lot of stone flagged floors, timber dado panelling and working window shutters."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
Raposo de Mello, ex-presidente da Anvisa, revelou que ficou atônito diante da mudança de orientação de Adams, dado o apoio de longa data do Advogado-Geral à Anvisa.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2017
For the interiors he chose bottle green tiles up to a decorative dado of acanthus leaves or pomegranate, details which remain in many of his stations today.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2011
Kirstie Allsopp would doubtless get all prissy about the lack of dado rails, but I find it impossible not to warm to a place like that.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2010
I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.
From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine
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
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
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
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 this way all the dadoes will be finished at exactly the same depth.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
In all these the ceilings and dados are to be in wood.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
The wall and pier dados, which extend from these marble slabs to the beautiful Azulejos floor, are all made in elegant mosaic.
From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Matthew Digby Wyatt
The rooms have dados of primrose-coloured Yezd alabaster in slabs four feet high by three broad, clouded and veined most delicately by nature.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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