Difference between Wainscot and Dado

What is the difference between Wainscot and Dado?

Wainscot as a noun is an area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room's walls. while Dado as a noun is the section of a pedestal above the base.

Wainscot

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room's walls.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Decorate a wall with a wainscot.

Dado

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To furnish with a dado.To cut a dado.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The section of a pedestal above the base.The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.

We hope you now know whether to use Wainscot or Dado in your sentence.

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