Dado

Quick meaning: Dado is a noun meaning (architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.

Meaning

(architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.

More Meanings

1. (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
2. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
3. (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
4. (transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.

Example Sentences

Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.

Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

Word Forms

• dados
• dadoes
• dadoing
• dadoed

Synonyms for dado

Depending on context, synonyms include wainscot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wainscot, die, dess, dais, solidum, deis.

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