| 单词 | dado |
| 例句 | I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The front half of the restaurant, known as the café area, reveals crackle-glazed-tile dado panels in shades of green, orange, and teal, which meet beautiful marble-mosaic floors. London’s new Ivy Market Grill 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Instead, there’s the drooling over the castle’s opulence, the visual caress of every chandelier and gold-leaf dado rail. Beauty and the Beast: feminist or fraud? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z For the interiors he chose bottle green tiles up to a decorative dado of acanthus leaves or pomegranate, details which remain in many of his stations today. Sixteen London Underground stations get listed status 2011-07-26T15:07:11Z Inspired by 19th-century Beaux-Arts proportions, the walls have simplified Classical cornices and dados, creating a sense of the grand, domestic proportions that were the original backdrop for many of these canvases decades ago. Metropolitan Museum Completes American Wing Renovation 2012-01-05T23:11:11Z Mr MacKellor added: "We weren't expecting to find much, but we did find quite a lot of stone flagged floors, timber dado panelling and working window shutters." Inverness Castle: Opening up 'private site' to the public 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z I also learned about dado, a cube of broth or spoonful of granules with wondrous powers, but that is another column. Egg drop soup: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for stracciatella | A Kitchen in Rome 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The dark dado gives the desired background without rendering it necessary that the entire wall be dark. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Ye fulsome diving dados, would ye were Extinct as your vocabular congener! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:26.587Z Round the whole room ran a brightly coloured dado covered with life-size figures of all the people we love when we are young—Jack the Giant-Killer, Old King Cole, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z All young ladies now were water colour artists, or busied themselves with colouring panels and dados on their friend’s walls. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Very thin slices are arranged geometrically in large patterns, and fastened with glue on staircase and passage walls, or made into dado panelling to the room, in this case capped by mouldings. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z The dado of a room need not be plain; indeed, it may be enriched to any extent. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The rooms have dados of primrose-coloured Yezd alabaster in slabs four feet high by three broad, clouded and veined most delicately by nature. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Above the dado at the first floor level the walls are painted a delicate green tint, relieved by a powdering of C’s and Civic Crowns. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The white-painted fresh-looking staircase is partially covered with Persian carpet of warm colour, and, throughout, the dado is composed of Indian matting, above which hang many engravings and photographs. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z All the long dadoes are carved elaborately and of exquisite workmanship, and the fretted ceilings are charming in design and colouring. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z If the blue dado is employed the skirting should be indigo, which, when varnished and seen in conjunction with the blue, will appear as black as jet. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The dome is rich with beaten gold, and the dado is of very fine tiles, which produce a striking effect. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z They lit with a flittering, golden light the white arabesquesed walls, the dado of lovely tiling, the marble floor and the fountain pool in the centre where goldfish flashed. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z It is a large, lofty room, pale green in colour, with carved oak dado. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z "The sitting-room adjoins," said the hotel-keeper, suddenly opening a door and ushering me into a magnificent chamber, with a lofty ceiling and a dado. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z We see them cropping up again and again in that blue flower on the wall paper, or running round and round the red coils on the dado. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z One of the most effective effects in house decoration can be obtained by having, say, the sitting-room pure cream or white, with, perhaps, a dado of six or seven feet from the ground. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The dados, which are being designed at home, are to be of carved wood, most of them; mantelpieces to match. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z On one table is a perfect model in soapstone of an Indian burying-ground, and above the dado is a narrow terry velvet ledge on which are strewn lovely bits of Japanese ivories and other ornaments. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z They had been surveying together a few decorative improvements, recently wrought, in mantel, dado, or even table-cover. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z And on the mid-Victorian dado scarcely legible now, he suddenly discovered drawings. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z Beyond the hazy dado Against the lower skies, And yon blue line of ranges, The homestead station lies. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z "And I did mean to have a dado of very fine, rich tiles to make a foundation of colour, you know; but you don't like tiles?" A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z On the stucco only the primary colours are used; the secondary tints being reserved for the dados of mosaic or tile work. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z The walls of the aisles are lined with the richest marble slabs, beneath which a beautiful dado of inlaid Eastern pattern runs round the chapel. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Was never beast so cautious seen As Tiny our pet hare; He sniffs at dado, chair, and screen, With such suspicious care. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z By this time they had gone up the plank that bridged over the present hiatus between ground and porch, and entered the living-room, which was being papered in red with a green dado and ceiling. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z Some of the dados will be of inlaid stone, tiles, and that sort of thing. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z The decoration of this splendid chamber is completed by a high dado of blue, white, and green "azulejos." Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Mr. Fabian was admiring the wonderful dado of tiles, that ran about the room from the floor to a height of four feet. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z All down the sides were his frieze of flags, his dado of red and white cotton in alternate stripes, and his own extraordinarily effective chalk drawings on sheets of brown paper between the windows. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z Although first used in this way, coloured marbles were gradually employed for the interior decoration of houses, for columns, dados, and friezes. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The people in the ten-and-sixpenny gallery seem fairly pleased with their dado. Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z The large columns are of Caserta marble, caps of stone, birds modelled by Caldecott; column niches lined with Devonshire spar; dado, Irish black; string, Irish green, and bases of small columns. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z The windows were placed above the dado, thus being four feet above the floor. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z The sun had not risen, but there was a pale primrose dado painted across the East. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z Venetian, or solid, marquetry may be applied with the aid of stencils, to large surfaces, such as the panels of doors, and dados. St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 2011-05-07T02:00:31.650Z The upper walls of the second-story room have the original plaster, reddish dado below and white above. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z And then a dado of tall bracken fantastic in shape and almost weird in outline, through which there peeped here and there, with insolent luxuriance, clumps of purple and snow-white foxgloves. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Such high-art decorations as you encounter—purple friezes surmounting yellow dadoes; dragons peeping out of fruit-baskets; idealized tomatoes in full bloom chasing one another all around the bedroom walls. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Kirstie Allsopp would doubtless get all prissy about the lack of dado rails, but I find it impossible not to warm to a place like that. Harry Pearson: The art of a dressing room stink 2010-10-07T23:06:00Z The ladies had seated themselves in the small salon with the grass-green paper, on which a collection of racehorses, framed in polished light oak, formed a kind of brown-rimmed lattice-work dado. The Undying Past It is finished in white with a dado of tiles painted with turtles. Remodeled Farmhouses From this, access is obtained to a small chamber with gilt dado, marble fire-place, and walls covered with mirrors up to the ceiling. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. Victoria walked up to her bedroom; the staircase was papered with a pretty blue and white pattern over a dado of white lincrusta. A Bed of Roses It was a dainty room, with a grey dimity dado, that marked off a few old engravings of poetic and dramatic subjects. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 The saloon was composed of woven cane, and ornamented with a dado of sage-green silk, on which were embroidered storks, pheasants and eagles flying through space. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The dado was to be grained, in imitation of an actual wainscot. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The elegant morsel of stucco-work now presented to the student has been actually traced from a portion of the stucco-work of one of the window recesses immediately above the dado. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. It is a charming boudoir, style Louis Quinze, with the walls hung with flowered silk of that epoch, and the dado made of fans which belonged to the same period. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June It's no use your putting a dado here. Loyal to the School The dado was thirty-two feet in height, on which were carved the emblems of every possible machine, implement or invention that conferred supremacy over nature in idealized grandeur. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Above the dados were two windows of the meanest and most debased Gothic. Old and New London Volume I The wall and pier dados, which extend from these marble slabs to the beautiful Azulejos floor, are all made in elegant mosaic. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. Now let us roll up our sleeves again and hurry on with the dado.' Miss Cayley's Adventures The dado, or lowest border, will often give the necessary weight to the design. Needlework As Art High above the sculptured dado rose strange windows of illuminated glass, in colors sad and brilliant, made visible by thousands of electric lights hidden in the sculptured recesses behind each window. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Above the couch thus formed it is well to stretch a dado of Indian matting, affixed above to a moulded rail. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction This result, however, will not be obtained by a patriotic misuse of old designs, and even the most p. 85enthusiastic Home Ruler must not be allowed to decorate his dining-room with a dado of Oghams. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Now, don't look at me like that: be practical, Elsie, and let me help you paint the dado.' Miss Cayley's Adventures Above, next to the cornice, and below, next to the dado, or even touching the floor, they were connected by borders of similar work. Needlework As Art The walls were laboriously sculptured dado and field and frieze, with bas-reliefs of the same character as the golden throne of the gods that stood at the centre of the semi-circle. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The tone of the ceilings and walls and floors should be light, the darkest portions being a dado. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction The clear pine boards in the dado are two feet in width. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. The refectory, without any other ornament than the bold ribs of its vaulted roof, and a dado of late tiles, is far more pleasing. Portuguese Architecture The Greek artist would never have approved of natural flowers or trees, embroidered as if growing out of a dado, simulating a garden worked in wool. Needlework As Art The hidden wall, as well as those portions above and below the cloister between dado and frieze, were covered with endless representations of the creations of art. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The walls and ceilings of the apartments now under consideration may, so long as there be a dado of glazed ware, be lined in the same way as the hot rooms. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction Several accompanying illustrations show it with the dado, while a few interiors of Mount Pleasant, Upsala and Cliveden show it with the paneled wainscot. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia All round the court is a dado of white and green tiles arranged in an Arab pattern. Portuguese Architecture The usual design consists of a dado of upright slabs surmounted by panelling to the cornice level, the panels being outlined with plain or carved beads. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture In using a flower, or other design, for a frieze or dado, they should be conventionalized. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society There was a shelf for books running round the dado, and the books therein were good of their kind and richly and handsomely bound. The School Queens A molded surbase and skirting, with a broad expanse of plastered wall between, provides an effective dado all around the hall. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia All around the wall runs a most striking dado, an odd, angular pattern, with conventionalized birds at intervals, painted in strong yet fade colors—red, yellow, black, and white. Our Italy Above the dado are two bands, red and green, separated from the dado and from each other by white fillets. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture On the other hand, the die or dado below them is fluted. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 A faint, pleasant odour of Russia leather and camphor-wood came from the dwarf bookcases that dadoed the walls. The Dop Doctor In a room so treated the dado becomes virtually a187 continuous pedestal with a base or skirting and a surbase above the die or plane face of the pedestal. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia But even more wonderful than all the rest was the dado painted on a wooden panelling which ran round the church. Through Finland in Carts There was a little discoloured spot about half way between the dado and the floor, and on this the doctor pressed a shaking thumb. The Slave of Silence The existence of the dado in such a position is to be accounted for by supposing that the decorator considered it as the regular ornament for the bottom of a wall. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Grooving planes are the plough and dado grooving planes. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Unlike the plain dado of the main hall, however, elaborated only by a molded surbase and skirting, a handsome paneled wainscot runs around the staircase hall and up the stairs. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia Parts of this dado were daily re-coated with hot fresh tar, as we found coal tar to be a valuable deodorizer. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 Mirrors were raised from the dado of the ragged seats to the frieze of the smoke-blackened ceiling; but they were for the most part cracked, and some had lost much of their glass. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea The object of such a dado is clear; it was to protect the lower part of the wall, if not against deliberate violence, at least against dirt. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 These curtains may be hung on poles, and should fall in heavy folds to the floor, then looped back with a wide embroidered dado. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources In furtherance of this thought, only the cornice with its jig-sawed modillions was employed at the ceiling and the flat dado was paneled off by the application of moldings to give it a lighter scale. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia Lime-wash was used for the inner roofing timbers and tiles, and generally for the walls, except for the three feet of dado, which was coated with coal tar. Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 Because Mabel insisted upon having sage-green curtains, and chair-covers, and a sage-green wall with a chocolate dado—did you ever hear of a dado?—in the new morning-room I built for her. Vixen, Volume III. It was a pretty little room, with a high wooden dado, painted olive green, and a high-art paper of amazing ugliness, whereon brown and red storks disported themselves on a dull green ground. Vixen, Volume I. The dado shades are the latest innovation in window decoration. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources A nicely paneled dado with dark-capped surbase along the opposite wall greatly enriches the effect. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The ornamentation of the Babylonian walls was imitated in stone, the rooms being adorned with a sculptured dado, the bas-reliefs of which were painted in bright colors. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs It is the background for the furniture, and should be deeper than the dado or wainscoting. Color Value The tomb chamber, entered from the east, has a finely decorated door of brass, and is encircled by a marble dado, twenty-five feet high, above which is a verse from the Koran carved in wood. Travels in the Far East These come in all colors, from the lightest to the darkest shades, with dado in tile, arabesque and fresco patterns, finished in lace, fringe, and brasses. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources A frieze or dado, or complete panelling of a room, may be worked in this way at a comparatively small cost. Handbook of Embroidery In one side chapel Michael sat himself down to copy a wide band of gaily-painted decorations, which formed a dado round its three walls. There was a King in Egypt The wainscoting or dado should be the same as the top border or frieze, but of a darker tone. Color Value A very fine Wat Poh near the palace contains an immense sleeping Buddha and many other interesting features, one of which is a small painted dado illustrating the legend of Rama. Travels in the Far East The latest shades of wall paper come in wood colors, dark olive-greens, stone color, and grays, in tile, arabesque and landscape designs, and with these are used a corresponding dado and frieze. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Its Italian doublet is dado, originally cubical pedestal, hence part of wall representing continuous pedestal. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) This double triangle is not only a constant symbol on wedding blankets, but also is found on the dadoes of houses, resembling in design the arrangement of tiles in the Alhambra and other Moorish buildings. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 After all these pieces have been squared up and the mill-marks removed, the dadoes or grooves and gains may be laid out and cut. Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3 It was a curious-looking place, being a large oval chamber forty feet long, the walls were faced with marble, and a dado painted in Egyptian style ran round the room. A Master of Mysteries Choose deep, rich grounds for the walls—bronze-maroon, black, Pompeiian red, and deep olive—and the designs and traceries in old gold, olive or moss-green, with dado and frieze to correspond. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Mrs. Yorba shuddered sometimes at the weakening of her inborn and long-nurtured economical faculty, but thoroughly enjoyed herself—forming an important item of the dado—and hoped that her husband's enthusiasm would endure. The Californians There are pretty dado patterns round the walls; and the staircase, as in the other castles, has numerous doors for defence, usually put in the middle of the flights. Southern Arabia Of the Chapter House the remaining walls were "no higher than a dado," and under them the timber was stored after treatment in the sawpit of the enclosure. Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less After the Salle des Pas-Perdus, she passed through a great ante-chamber, circular in shape, where servants, drawn up respectfully in line, formed a living, bedizened dado on the high bare wall. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) A typical form of sidewise chiseling is the cutting out of a dado, Fig. Handwork in Wood The leader of the band was in that stage of intoxication which promised music to make the soles of the dado tingle. The Californians Rhubarb-green and gilt paper, with dark olive dado: curtains of a nondescript brown. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 In these rooms there should be panels above the dadoes, worked in black, and polished, with yellow ochre or vermilion blocks interposed between them. The Ten Books on Architecture Having fixed the height of wall or dado, we make use of V point to draw the sides of the building, and by means of proportionate measurement complete the rest, as in Fig. The Theory and Practice of Perspective It is practicable, if a rabbet or mitered joint is used in the sides, but if the side pieces are butted or dadoed, the rabbet for the bottom shows. Handwork in Wood The older women sat against the wall, a dado of fat and diamonds, and indulged in much caustic criticism. The Californians An embossed dado and an even more embossed frieze encircled the walls, and the ceiling was a complicated mosaic of color and design. Quin The house was large, well built for the times, finished with clear, unpainted white pine, with dado work in the front rooms below and in the chambers above. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 I will confess that it did occur to me at first to put through the whole business at one fell swoop—house, wall-papers, dados, chandeliers, carpets, and curtains. The Opinions of a Philosopher In this way all the dadoes will be finished at exactly the same depth. Handwork in Wood It dimly illumines the painted spiral frieze above its white gypsum dado, and falls below on the small terra-cotta bath-tub, standing much as it was left some three and a half millenniums back. The Sea-Kings of Crete He went into the long oak-panelled dining-room, where above the high carved dado were more Dares. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers The border round the top of the dado is alternated with these all the way round some of the rooms. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond It is part of his instinct of decoration: for on a page the title always looks important and the printed mass of matter a mere dado under it. The Victorian Age in Literature The back is dadoed into the sides, with either a straight dado, Fig. Handwork in Wood There was a dado of Mother Goose illustrations on the pink walls. Honey-Sweet Above the dado, and on the wooden panels of ceiling, will be the birds, etc. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 The columns, in exceedingly bold alto-relievo, spring from a dado about the height of a man's chest, and which is surmounted by a bold and beautiful architrave. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three Both are desirable maisonettes, though the tenants of 105a have the sole enjoyment of the lincrusta dadoes in the original dining-room. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 In this case the bottom is raised from the floor, and may be dadoed into the bottom rails, or dowelled into them or even supported by strips attached along their lower inside edges. Handwork in Wood The space above the dado of the partition became suddenly a tapestry of attentive faces, clear-eyed, all-comprehending. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches The woodwork of dining-room is plain American walnut, the panels of dado being filled with dark Japanese leather-paper. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 But very few of them have any noticeable quantity behind their dadoes. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 There is usually a cupboard space running round the room about the height of a dado and projecting a little beyond the bookcases above. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Cut out grooves in the waste for the saw as in a simple dado, and saw to the proper depth and at the proper angle. Handwork in Wood The church was painted white inside, with frescoes and dados of gaudy hues, and windows of brilliantly colored glass. White Shadows in the South Seas The setting for Chippendale furniture was a panelled dado, classic mantelpiece, architraves and frieze, and stretched over sidewalks, above dado, was silk or paper showing a large pattern harmonising with the furniture. The Art of Interior Decoration There were no decorations, but the dowagers were a jewelled dado, the girls an animated bed of blossoms. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories In a French music room the walls may be either paneled, or have a dado with a soft tint above it. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today In book shelves a gain gives a better appearance than a dado. Handwork in Wood This result, however, will not be obtained by a patriotic misuse of old designs, and even the most enthusiastic Home Ruler must not be allowed to decorate his dining-room with a dado of Oghams. Reviews Later, the upper half, or two-thirds of the panelling, was left off, and only a low panelling, or "dado," remained. The Art of Interior Decoration He pointed to the carved and whitewashed dado which had hitherto so puzzled me. The Lost Stradivarius The front door had been forced open, and the flood had registered its own height in a brown dado on the walls. A Diversity of Creatures The bottom of the dado thus cut should be flat so as to afford surface for gluing. Handwork in Wood The dowagers sat against the wall, a coffee-coloured dado; the girls in white, the caballeros in black silk small-clothes, the officers in their uniforms, danced to the music of the flute and the guitar. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California The walls were embellished with dados of bright coloured tiles and the floors paved with black and white marble. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century As I turned into Anglisky Prospect I found stretched like a black dado, far down the street, against the wall, a queue of waiting women. The Secret City But the fact that Nature is beautiful in the sense that a dado or a Liberty curtain is beautiful, is only one of her charms, and almost an accidental one. The Defendant After fitting these, lay out and cut the dadoes for the back of the drawer. Handwork in Wood The dados were decorated with gesso work on a gold ground. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood From this access is gained to the various wings and apartments of the mansion, the finest room being the hall, with its deep oak dado, fireplace, and open timber roof. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association I brought up a Japanese picture-book to use as a cornice in my den, but A. persuaded me to get some wall paper, and use the pictures as a dado for the dining-room. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Round about the said sarcophagus will be placed six dadoes or pedestals, on which six figures of the same dimensions will sit. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti A dado or grooved joint is made by cutting in one member a groove into which the end or edge of the other member fits. Handwork in Wood The dados outside the Taj are similar in design to these, though larger and correspondingly bolder in style. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section P and Q The Persic name for 'die' is 'dad,' and from this word is derived the name of the thing in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian, namely, dado. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) The new scheme called for a gray wallpaper supported by a maroon dado. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Properly speaking a groove runs with the grain, a dado across it, so that the bottom of a drawer is inserted in a groove while the back of the drawer is inserted in a dado. Handwork in Wood The dado panels are especially remarkable for the charming conventionalized rendering of trees, flowers, birds, and animals. A Handbook to Agra and the Taj Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood All the rooms were painted alike, in salmon-colour with a high dado of maroon; and there was in them an odour of disinfectants, mingling as the afternoon wore on with the crude stench of humanity. Of Human Bondage In such a place the sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for the chambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlike the terrible tidiness of the sea. The Wisdom of Father Brown There was a high dado of white wood and a green paper on which were etchings by Whistler in neat black frames. Moon and Sixpence Then locate the other side of the dado by placing, if possible, the proper part of the other member, called Y, close to the line drawn. Handwork in Wood Beyond the hazy dado Against the lower skies And yon blue line of ranges The homestead station lies. In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses The dissecting-room was a large apartment painted like the corridors, the upper part a rich salmon and the dado a dark terra-cotta. Of Human Bondage Somehow it reminded them of the dado of a nursery wall-paper. The Innocence of Father Brown Thus we have heard of one visitor pathetically exclaiming, 'Not one dado adorns the walls!' The Grand Old Man The second member, Y, should just fit into a dado thus made, but if the joint is too tight, the cheeks of the dado may be pared with a chisel. Handwork in Wood A narrow shelf ran all the way round the dado; this shelf was entirely filled with the most charming collection of English and French china, little cottages, birds and figures. Love at Second Sight It was in an ornamental wooden frame fixed on the wall, formed, in fact, a finish to a wooden dado. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles There was a painted wooden dado halfway up the wall, and a florid rose and butterfly paper above it. The Golden Calf In all these the ceilings and dados are to be in wood. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Knife grooves are made in the waste for starting the saw as in the dado. Handwork in Wood Presently, the pattern of the dado ceased to interest His Majesty, while the packet, a white, neatly wrapped one of fascinating shape, interested him very much indeed. Indian Tales So all the rest of the journey I was trying to eradicate a cream dado from my pantaloons. Remarks Ruyler's cool insolent gaze swept the dado of amiable overfed ladies who fanned themselves against the wall. The Avalanche The most costly bags and trunks are made from it; pocket-books, card-cases, dining-room chairs are covered with it, and it has been used as a dado on the library wall of a well-known naturalist. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 The best machine-made drawers are now made with the bottom paneled or dadoed in all around so that papers cannot slip out. Handwork in Wood There is a neat dado round the church, which was made at the expense of Mr. J. J. Myres. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston Very likely the white-eyed boy with the hickory dado along the base of his overalls is the boy who in future years is to be the president of the United States. Remarks This is art indeed—art in the mind and soul, infinitely deeper, surely, than the construction of crockery, jugs for the mantelpiece, dados, or even of paintings. The Open Air On the dusty shelf over the washstand stood an incongruous array of silver-mounted, monogramed toilet articles; around the wall ran a dado of shoes, while from the gas-pipe depended a heavy bunch of neckties. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill For a dado remove the fences and set the spurs parallel with the edges of the cutter. Handwork in Wood The mud of the pavement, splashing up on the wall, made an even dado along the bottom, on which Andrews scraped the toe of his shoe up and down. Three Soldiers They'll be asking us to put down encaustic tiles upon the floors next, and to paper their walls with Japanese leather or fashionable dados. Philistia Mr. Morris might have made something out of it for a dado. Travels in West Africa The nannies I handed over to the nursery department, and the mothers and the Frauleins and the mademoiselles I arranged in a dado round the room, making inappropriate remarks to each in turn. The Professional Aunt Not an inch of wall above the oak dado was visible. The Fortunate Youth The division into dado, and wall hung from thence to the cornice, is fittest for a wall which is to be covered with painted decoration, or its makeshift, paper-hangings. Hopes and Fears for Art The difficulty of removing these papers was increased by the fact that there was a dado which had been varnished. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists The walls are of panelled oak, with an eight-foot dado of Arras cloth imitated from unique Continental examples. The Grand Babylon Hotel Let him who doubts peruse attentively the following lines:- � � Coin si deya, coin se dado? Romano Lavo-Lil: word book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy language "Where are you bound for in that fashion, Thibaut, Tybalde ad dados, with your back turned to the university, and trotting towards the town?" Notre-Dame De Paris There was the same parquet floor, and dado of shiny pitchpine. The Longest Journey In other parts of the same house the ceilings, the friezes, and the dados, were covered with 'embossed' or 'relief' papers. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists By the way, what do you think of this dado? Rudder Grange I believe that he is as extinct as the dado, of which now only fossil remains are found, chiefly in the vicinity of Brompton, where they are sometimes discovered by workmen excavating. Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde The last story, which was narrower, formed a sort of dado on the summit of the terraces. Salammbo |
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