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plural dados or dadoes
(architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base. examples
(architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. quotations examples
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.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
(carpentry) The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain. examples
third-person singular simple present dadoes, present participle dadoing, simple past and past participle dadoed
(transitive, architecture) To furnish with a dado. examples
(transitive, carpentry) To cut a dado. examples