Crossword-Solution: DADOS 5 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dados arose upon every wall, sunflowers and the feathers of peacocks curved in every corner, tea grew quite cold while the guests were praising the Willow Pattern of its cup.

Whitewash their cottages, indeed! The lazy improvident creatures! They'll be asking us to put down encaustic tiles upon the floors next, and to paper their walls with Japanese leather or fashionable dados.

This is art indeed--art in the mind and soul, infinitely deeper, surely, than the construction of crockery, jugs for the mantelpiece, dados, or even of paintings.

Silk embroideries representing the stork--a scrawny bird with a scalp-lock at the back of its neck, looking like a mosquito when flying--and porcelain landscapes out of drawing, like a child's first attempts, peopled by individuals with the expression of having their hair pulled, hung 'twixt our dados and friezes.

But everything we really needed--gorgeous wall-papers, and dados, and polished floors, and electric-bells, and stained-glass windows--was there.