dado
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dado¹
- /ˈdeɪdəʊ/ UK
- /ˈdeɪdoʊ/ US
Rhymes with -eɪdəʊ
Where it comes from
From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.
noun dados · dadoes
- The section of a pedestal above the base.
- The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. 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.
- A rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain. Next, cut stopped dadoes in the shelf and the underside of the top for the vertical dividers.
verb dadoes · dadoing · dadoed
- To furnish with a dado.
- To cut a dado.
Dado²
proper noun Dados
- A surname.
Translations
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noun lower portion of interior wall
| Español | friso |
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noun rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain
| Français | embrèvement |
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Talk about this word "dado." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dado. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dado. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dado "dado." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dado.Cite this
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