dado

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the lower part of an interior wall when it is decorated or finished differently from the area above it

   A painted dado ran around the dining room beneath the patterned wallpaper.

2. 2
   noun

   a rectangular groove cut across a board to receive the edge of another piece

   The carpenter cut a dado across each side panel to support the shelf.

3. 3
   noun

   the blocklike middle section of a pedestal, between its base and upper molding

   The sculptor's name was carved into the dado of the pedestal.

4. 4
   verb

   to cut a dado in a piece of wood or join wood by means of one

   The cabinetmaker dadoed the uprights before fitting the shelves.

Borrowed from Italian dado ("die; plinth"). The architectural term first named the blocklike central part of a pedestal and then the similarly proportioned lower section of an interior wall.

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