Dadoes or friezes can be divided off with the tiny beading which frame-makers use, or with a painted line, which must be straight and evenly done.
"What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes"
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Round about the said sarcophagus will be placed six Dadoes or pedestals, on which six figures of the same dimensions will sit.
"The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti"
John Addington Symonds