A rectangular groove across the width of a board or plank. In interior decoration, a special type of wall treatment.

1660s, of pedestals, from Italian dado "die, cube," from Latin datum (see die (n.)). Of wood panelling in a room, from 1787.

Internal: the low panelling around a room.

Stone treatment on interior walls which does not extend to the ceiling, often ornamented.

Decorative or protective treament of the lower part of a wall to a height of 3 to 4 feet.    (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 411)

(n) panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall(n) the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase(n) a rectangular groove cut [..]

A groove cut into a board or panel intended to receive the edge of a connecting board or panel.

(1) The section of a pedestal between base and surbase. (2) The lower portion of the wall of a room, decorated diffrently from the upper section.

the lower portion of a wall.

the lower part of an interior wall, often decorated.

The intermediate portion of a pedestal, between it's base and cornice.

A timber moulding fixed to the wall at waist level.

(architecture) The section of a pedestal above the base. (architecture) The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion. (carpentry) The rectangular channel in [..]

Portuguese diminutive of Eduardo.

Croatian diminutive of Damir and other names containing the sound da.