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lido

[lee-doh] Origin

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

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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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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lido (ˈliːdəʊ)
 
n , pl -dos
(Brit) a public place of recreation, including a pool for swimming or water sports
 
[C20: after the Lido, island bathing beach near Venice, from Latin litus shore]

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Lido
famous resort island off Venice, from It., from L. litus "shore."
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LIDO definition


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)

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