A fashionable beach resort or a public outdoor swimming pool.[After Lido, an island reef in northeastern Italy, between the Lagoon of Venice and the Adriatic Sea, site of a famous beach resort.]
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"Within seconds, a half-dozen over-eager denizens of Cartagena's lido were on us like flies, offering food and drink, massages, hair-braiding, necklaces."
Frank Bajak; Cartagena Struggles to Recover Lost Tourists; The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Nov 22, 1998.
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