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🪵 A wood groove 🪚 To cut a groove 🏛️ Pedestal middle part 🖼️ Lower wall panel 🪑 To panel a wall
to dado

to dado

9.9
To fit wooden panels along the lower part of an inside wall
  • verb
  • /ˈdeɪdoʊ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : panelar
  • Many Victorian houses were originally dadoed to protect their walls from scuffs.

Examples

  • The owners decided to dado their living room for a more classic look.

  • They decided to dado the living room with wood panels.

  • He spent the weekend dadoing the hallway with elegant oak panels.

  • Don't dado the living room!

  • The homeowners decided to dado their kitchen walls with beautiful ceramic tiles.

  • After much planning, they dadoed the entryway to give it a more refined appearance.

  • In her renovation project, she chose to dado the dining room with rich mahogany wood.

Synonyms

to panel
vsto dado
13 5.3

To cover a wall or ceiling with flat pieces of material

is a specific method using a low horizontal band on a wall

Compounds

dado plane
  • Specialized
9.9

A small hand tool that cuts a straight groove across a wooden board

Surface Forms

dado infinitive
daded past
daded past participle
dadoing present participle
dados third person singular

Etymology

Dado as a verb meaning to add that lower panel comes from the noun dado, the block-like lower wall part, so the verb simply means 'to give a room that block band'. In other words, to dado a wall is to fit it with a lower, protective or decorative panel.