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dadoes

dadoes is the plural of dado.

dadoes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of dado.

Meaning of dado

Noun

dado (plural dados or dadoes)

  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.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  3. A rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
    • Next, cut stopped dadoes in the shelf and the underside of the top for the vertical dividers.2026 August, Logan Wittmer, “Whiskey Cabinet”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 56

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Questions about dadoes

What is dadoes the plural of?
Dadoes is the plural of dado.

Words near dadoes in the dictionary

  1. dadny
  2. dado
  3. dado rail
  4. dado rails
  5. dadoed
  6. dadoes
  7. dadoing
  8. Dadon
  9. dados
  10. Dadou
  11. Dadoun

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