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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

... the row of pictorially-illustrated nursery rhymes that adorned the brown-paper dado of Saxham's third-floor bedroom, the previous tenant having ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... una de las cartas que le ha dado.) Qu cabeza! sta, para Cesreo, no va... Aguarda, voy a concluir ...

— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos

... letters left at my flat, and I can't even find out who leaves them, let alone if it is Welkin himself. The porter of the flats swears that no suspicious characters have been seen, and here he has pasted up a sort of dado on a public shop window, while ...

— The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton

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