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lidos

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