A dado (US and Canada), housing (UK) or trench (Europe) is a slot or trench cut into the surface of a piece of machinable material, usually wood.
Panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall.
1 There was a dado of Mother Goose illustrations on the pink walls.
2 Mr. Morris might have made something out of it for a dado .
3 Somehow it reminded them of the dado of a nursery wall-paper.
4 Not an inch of wall above the oak dado was visible.
5 The new scheme called for a gray wallpaper supported by a maroon dado .
6 There was the same parquet floor, and dado of shiny pitchpine.
7 The entrance hall has sanded floorboards and a mid-height dado rail.
8 The dado rails, chevron flooring and glass door are all phenomenal.
9 It has Chinese slate flooring, and rosewood dado rails and panelling.
10 He pointed to the carved and whitewashed dado which had hitherto so puzzled me.
11 He had slumped against the marble dado and we thought he must be dead.
12 On the yellow walls, there were little blue hens stencilled above the dado rail.
13 A simple airy ante-room, with a stucco dado , formed an entrance into a drawing-room and dining-room.
14 The bottom of the dado thus cut should be flat so as to afford surface for gluing.
15 The last story, which was narrower, formed a sort of dado on the summit of the terraces.
16 And if she'd kept silent, they would've put the dado rail back at quite the wrong height!
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