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Usage examples of dado.

A room like this would probably at one time have had a dado rail at chair height.

Without his help there was no way she could have fixed the dado rail in place anyway.

The pretty floral paper she had chosen now ran from halfway up the walls, over the ceiling and down the opposite walls where it met the white-painted, newly installed dado rail.

Simon approved, touching the paintwork of the dado rail, thankfully oblivious to the tension which was gripping her as she walked into the room.

There was a blue-black dado and a painted cornice with an effect just like plaster bathed in evening light.

The King received us in a lightly furnished reception room, which had a dado with sinuous tendrils of foliage, its colouring and form exactly like one at the Marcellinus villa.

Lamps that were milky opals self-effulgent filled all the chamber with a soft radiance, in which the bas-reliefs of the high dado, delicately carved, portraying those immortal blooms of amaranth and nepenthe and moly and Elysian asphodel, were seen in all their delicate beauty, and the fair painted pictures of the Lord of Krothering and his lady sister, and of Lord Juss above the great open fireplace with Goldry and Spitfire on his left and right.

The room itself, elegantly coved and dadoed, was a sophisticated mix of purples and contrasting shades, mainly ochres and whites, against which the King made a different kind of contrast, dressed today not in his Roman wear but local garments in a whole fruit basket of berry dyes.

Despite the lack of inexpensive fasteners, they had never heard of a dado or a rabbet or a dovetail joint.

Her gaze sought answers in the heavenward-curving voussoirs of the serried vaults, but then slid down the polished marble columns to the life-size sculptures of saints that formed the dados of the pedestals.

En las mesas abarrotadas había ladrones y asesinos bebiendo vino y cerveza, jugando a los dados, discutiendo, cantando, peleándose y dando gritos.

The decadent cartouches and dadoes telling this story were, as I have said, the latest we could find in our limited search.

El favor de los astros (la infinita y ubicua red de causas) le había dado la fortuna, que anula las distancias como el tapiz del árabe, y confunde deseo y posesión, y el don del verso, que transforma las penas verdaderas en una música, un rumor y un símbolo, y el fervor, y en la sangre la batalla de Ituzaingó y el peso de laureles, y el goce de perderse en el errante río del tiempo (río y laberinto) y en los lentos colores de las tardes.

Dijo que era de Yorkshire, que sus padres emigraron a Buenos Aires, que los había perdido en un malón, que la habían llevado los indios y que ahora era mujer de un capitanejo, a quien ya había dado dos hijos y que era muy valiente.

He noticed it was all around him, spattered beneath the dado rail and disguised upon the flock wallpaper.