dadoed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of dado
Example Sentences
- "But it was in the vast dull world of terraces, gardens, streets, roads, places, and squares of New Kensington that the eye found strongest evidence of the rude awakening that had burst upon the long dream of security. Those legions of poor blue-china, peacock-feathered people—those miles of dadoed and daffodiled interiors—how infinitely forlorn and desolate they were now! I thought of the days when I had seen them in their glory; when a new wall-paper had been of greater consequence than a brigade of infantry, and a bit of blue crockery was worth more than a marshal’s baton."
- "If the staircase is assembled with dadoed joints, this method can still be used, however, for best results wedges should also be driven upward under the overhanging edge."
- "There wasn't a room that had not been clad, picture-railed, dadoed, panelled, stained, gilded, bordered and generally made over to within an inch of its life - can I interest anyone in a gold cherubic sconce?"
Etymology
Etymology tree English dado Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English dadoed From dado + -ed.