dado
IPA: dˈeɪdoʊ
noun
- (architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base.
- (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.
- (carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado.
Examples of "dado" in Sentences
- I will ask Danny to go for Dado.
- Dado retired from boxing in 1940.
- There are two common kinds of dado sets.
- Gray Kokinara marble is used for the dado.
- The interior is plastered above a timber dado.
- Internally the walls are plastered above a dado.
- Around the chapel is a panelled dado and a cornice.
- Through dado on the left and stopped dado on the right.
- The world of the future in DADoES is overrun by garbage.
- Dado rails are also sometimes applied to a wall without the full dado treatment.