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The Breton song goes Fais dado, pauvre, p'tit Pierrot Papa est sur l'eau Qui fait des bateaux Pour le p'tit Pierrot The Swedish cradle song follows the almost universal custom.— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
This custom of decorating the walls of a building with triangles placed at intervals on the upper edge of a dado is a feature of cliff-house kivas, as shown in Nordenskiöld's beautiful memoir on the cliff villages of Mesa Verde.— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
Having fixed the height of wall or dado, we make use of V point to draw the sides of the building, and by means of proportionate measurement complete the rest, as in Fig.— The Theory and Practice of Perspective
Of the Chapter House the remaining walls were "no higher than a dado," and under them the timber was stored after treatment in the sawpit of the enclosure.— Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less

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