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Dado

noun

(pl. dadoes)

Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall. Synonym: wainscot.

The section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase.

A rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it.

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"Dado" Quotes from Famous Books

... help you. I couldn't go on eating your hard-earned bread and doing nothing. I know how sweet you are; but the last thing I want is to add to your burdens. Now let us roll up our sleeves again and hurry on with the dado.' ...

— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen

... feeling a little trouble about the maid who would give her her dinner at one o'clock; and after a while she went to explore that apartment at the back Miss Starbrow had spoken of. It was a large room, nearly square, with cream-coloured walls and dark red dado, and a polished floor, partly covered with a Turkish carpet; but there was very little furniture in it, and the atmosphere seemed chill and heavy, for it was the old unrenewed air of a room that was never used. On a large centre table a number of artistic ...

— Fan • Henry Harford

... suddenly became angular, cushionless, springless; and the sofas were stood across corners, or parallel with the fireplace, in slants expressive of the personality of the presiding genius. The walls became all frieze and dado; and instead of the simple and dignified ugliness of the impersonal period our interiors abandoned themselves to a hysterical chaos, full of character. Some people had their doors painted black, and the daughter or mother of the ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... leaning against the dusty house wall. Andrews looked at his feet. The mud of the pavement, splashing up on the wall, made an even dado along the bottom, on which Andrews scraped the toe of his ...

— Three Soldiers • John Dos Passos

Words linked to "Dado" : segment, pedestal, channel, provide, render, plinth, footstall, woodworking, wainscot, woodwork, wall, panel, carpentry, groove, supply, furnish, section