dado

noun

1. The section of a pedestal above the base.
2. The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.

   “Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.”

   “Hangings of tapestry were behind the high seats, worked with flowers, snake’s-head, snapdragon, dragon-mouth, and their kind; and on the dado below the windows were sculptures of birds and beasts and creeping things.”

3. The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

verb

1. (transitive)To furnish with a dado.
2. (transitive)To cut a dado.

name

1. A surname.