dado
Collocations
4ADJ.
below, round
VERB + DADO
like
DADO + NOUN
room, windows
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
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.
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.
The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
verb
To furnish with a dado.
To cut a dado.
name
A surname.
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Synonyms
noun — panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is
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2Like 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 su
WiktionaryHangings 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
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