| 单词 | dado moulding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdado moulding a. In senses 1 and 2, as dado moulding, dado wall, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > wallcovering > [noun] > dado dado1741 dado moulding1765 1765 J. Prestage Particular of Well-built Dwelling House 3 A little inner room with a deal floor, painted dado wainscot and hung with paper to the cornice. 1774 T. Skaife Key Civil Archit. xv. 67 This sort of skirting to stairs is always allowed double measure; the same of raking, dado mouldings, &c. if they are ramped. 1809 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 327/2 The columns and architraves..are very delicate and beautiful; the dado mouldings are remarkably so. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 284 A cornice or dado moulding surmounting the die. 1876 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 8 Mar. 73/3 The artist proposes to treat the history as an effective dado decoration for the walls of a room. 1881 Independent Statesman (Concord, New Hampsh.) 21 July 1/ The furniture of the family moving out had torn the dado paper. 1935 W. Empson Poems 22 Snow-puppy curves, rose-solemn dado band. 1981 Inventory Anc. Monuments Glamorgan: Vol. 4 (Royal Comm. Anc. & Hist. Monuments Wales) I. 276/1 The walls of the drawing-room are panelled, the dado panels framed by ovolo moulding. 2002 R. Bork in N. Y. Wu Ad Quadratum xi. 244 Thirteenth-century dado walls were built up against the lower western faces of the cathedral's Ottonian transept. < as lemmas |
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