dado - provide with a dado; "The owners wanted to dado their dining room"
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Dado - In classical architecture, the portion of a plinth or pedestal between the base and cornice; also called a die.
Dentil - A small square block used in series in Ionic, Corinthian, Composite, and more rarely Doric Cornices.
dado
Paneling, usually wood, that is applied to the lower portion of a wall, above a baseboard.
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Dado
the separate protective or decorative treatment applied to the lower parts of wall-surfaces to a height, normally, of 3 ft. to 4ft.
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Dado The plain space in panelling especially wainscoting.
Dentils Small blocks in a classic cornice. (See Order.) ...
Dado The lower part of an internal wall, below chair-rail height, when decorated differently from the upper part.
Dado Rail: Wooden moulding fixed horizontally to a wall, about 1 metre above the floor, originally intended to protect the wall against damage by chair-backs now very much a decorative feature.
DADO See wainscot.
DENTILS Small rectangular blocks ornamenting the underside of a cornice.
Dado The bottom one metre or so of wall clad with timber, originally designed to provide protection to the wall, and also covering the area most likely to be affected by rising damp. The top edge is finished with a Dado Rail.
Dado rail - Decorative and/ or functional rails, usually made from moulded timber, fitted traditionally to internal walls to protect them from damage by chairs.
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DADO The finishing (often with panelling) of the lower part of a wall, usually in a classical interior; in origin a formalized continuous pedestal.
Dado rail : the moulding along the top of the dado.
Dado Rail:
A wooden rail or molding that is fixed horizontally along a wall, usually about a third of the way up from the floor.
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Dado (height) - A decorative band, or moulding over a base.
Decorated (Gothic) - second English Medieval phase from late c13 to 1450.
dado: Lower part of an interior wall, often decorated with arcading.
depressed arch: A flattened arch, slightly pointed on top. It appears in Late Gothic of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Dado (dado rail)
- the lower portion of an internal wall, usually timber lined, extending some 900mm above floor level. Originally to prevent damage from furniture, and perhaps to hide the effects of rising damp.
Dado - The zone between a chair rail or lower part of a sill and the baseboard.
Damper - An adjustable metal plate controlling convection currents in a fireplace.
Dado - Mid section of a pedestal, between base and cornice
Dentil - Molding made up of rows of small square blocks
Dimension Stone - Large blocks of stone used in foundations ...
Dado - the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board; mid section of a pedestal, between base and cornice
Dentil - Molding made up of rows of small square blocks ...
DADO: the lower part of a screen, wall, or other vertical architectural surface, usually divided from the upper parts by a DADO RAIL. DAGGER: a lance-shaped motif found in window traceries in Decorated style.
Cutstone Large stones cut individually, used for a foundation or wall of a house.D
Dado The zone between a chair rail or lower part of a sill and the baseboard.
Dentil A molding motif that projects from the edge of a roof line or cornice.
Dado Rail - a moulding fixed to the wall or capping panelling and forming the top most part of a dado. Originally designed to avoid damage to the wall where people or furniture brushed against it.
D Dado: Lower part of an interior wall, often decorated with arcading. Daub: A mud of clay mixture applied over wattle to strengthen and seal it. Dead ground: Close to the wall, where the defenders can't shoot.
RampedOf a stair-rail, dado etc: with a steep concave curve just short of the newel, or in line with it.Random rubbleMasonry whose stones are wholly or partly in a rough state and laid in a random pattern.
Wainscot - Wooden lining, usually panelled, applied to the walls of a room usually upto dado height
Waist - The narrow part of a long object, in particular the least thickness of a reinforced concrete stair slab.
Walk-in - A cold store.
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Courtyard arcade with glazed tile dado ...
It is also used to distinguish the cornice of a pedestal or podium and is separated from the base by the dado or die.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
PODIUM (Gr. 7roocov, diminutive of ir-ous, foot), the name in architecture for a continuous pedestal, or low wall on which columns are carried, consisting of a cornice or capping, a dado or die, and a moulded plinth.
This window also shows the original dado under the window.
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