dado

American  

[day-doh] / ˈdeɪ doʊ /

noun

• dadoes,
  plural
• dados
  plural

1. Also called die. Architecture. the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice or cap.

2. the lower broad part of an interior wall finished in wallpaper, a fabric, paint, etc.

3. Carpentry. a groove or rectangular section for receiving the end of a board.

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verb (used with object)

1. to provide with a dado.

verb phrase

1. dado in to insert (a board or the like) into a dado.

dado British  

/ ˈdeɪdəʊ /

noun

1. the lower part of an interior wall that is decorated differently from the upper part

2. architect the part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice

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verb

1. (tr) to provide with a dado

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dadoes
  plural
• dados
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dado

1655–65; < Italian: die, cube, pedestal, perhaps < Arabic dad game

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Example Sentences

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dado dadoes dados

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

After all these pieces have been squared up and the mill-marks removed, the dadoes or grooves and gains may be laid out and cut.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor

Such high-art decorations as you encounter—purple friezes surmounting yellow dadoes; dragons peeping out of fruit-baskets; idealized tomatoes in full bloom chasing one another all around the bedroom walls.

From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by John Kendrick Bangs

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

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

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

Ye fulsome diving dados, would ye were Extinct as your vocabular congener!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various

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 Frederick O'Brien

The walls were embellished with dados of bright coloured tiles and the floors paved with black and white marble.

From Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century by Montague Massey

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