1. plural of dado; the lower part of an interior wall when decorated differently from the upper part
Usage: architecture
2. plural of dado; rectangular grooves cut across the grain of wood
Usage: carpentry

Examples

• The dining room featured elegant dados with dark wood paneling.
• Victorian homes often have decorative dados in their hallways.
• The carpenter cut precise dados to join the shelves to the cabinet sides.
• Installing dados requires careful measurement and sharp tools.
• The dados were painted white to contrast with the blue upper walls.
• He used a router to create clean dados in the plywood.