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li⋅do

[lee-doh]
–noun, plural -dos. British.
1. a fashionable beach resort.
2. a public open-air swimming pool.

Origin:
1925–30; after the Lido

Li⋅do

[lee-doh; It. lee-daw]
–noun
a chain of sandy islands in NE Italy, between the Lagoon of Venice and the Adriatic: resort.
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Li·do   (lē'dō)   
An island reef of northeast Italy separating the lagoon of Venice from the Adriatic Sea. The town of Lido, at the northern end of the island, is a fashionable resort.
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Word Origin & History

Lido 
famous resort island off Venice, from It., from L. litus "shore."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

LIDO
An input language for the attribute evaluator generator LIGA (a successor of GAG and a subsystem of the Eli compiler-compiler). LIDO is derived from GAG's input language ALADIN.
["LIDO: A Specification Language for Attribute Grammars", U. Kastens , Fab Math-Inf, U Paderborn (Oct 1989)].
(1994-10-20)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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