lido

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Recent Examples of lido Escape the ruckus at a beach club, or lido, such as Pettolecchia Il Lido, a luxury spot between Bari and Brindisi. Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2024 The brand-new lakefront sandy lido is fully renovated to highlight the glamour of the Italian Riviera during the 1950s and 1960s. Jim Dobson, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024 The chums who are just a bit taller, a bit fitter, who have bigger houses, more money, better connections, who swim faster and cope better with the lido’s freezing winter temperatures. Claire Cohen, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2023 From this angle, the water looked like a private lido. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023 Cruises may bring to mind parties on the lido deck, communal buffets and flashy Broadway-style shows. Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023 Decompress after a busy Florentine adventure with a few days on the Ligurian coast, or spend a morning at the lido to cleanse your palate after too many gondola rides in Venice. Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023 With a population of about 100,000 and a lido, or beachfront boardwalk, lined with casual-to-Michelin restaurants, Funchal radiates energy. Leron Kornreich, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022 The multipurpose event space will also include a lido (Brit-speak for swimming pool), ice rink, restaurant, cafes, shops, and office space, according to the Royal Docks website. Lauren Steele, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2014
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lido
Noun
  • La Réserve de la Mala, one of the best plages in the area, is worth making the trek (or hopping in a taxi boat) to nearby Cap d’Ail.
    Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Just weeks after Paris hosted it’s annual Open, models and IT girls have been sporting distinctly Francophile hair accessories fit for a weekend a la plage.
    Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 1 July 2017
Noun
  • And Centennial Park remains a grassy, amenity-less esplanade with spectacular views of Lake Michigan — plus Ishbia’s stone breakwater, which began inching outward last spring, boulder by boulder.
    Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
  • It was razed and turned into a grassy esplanade called Centennial Park.
    Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The five-star Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok is a luxury riverside urban resort in the heart of Bangkok.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2024
  • In Punta Gorda, a 10-foot (3-meter) surge from the Peace River swept into the historic district, damaging homes and depositing six boats along one riverside street.
    JULIO CORTEZ, KATE PAYNE, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Hailing from the peninsula’s steppe interior, mountainous east, and Black Sea littoral, this population tended to be devoutly Muslim and, for the most part, had never been fully at ease with the republic’s secularist founding project.
    Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The massive polities of the Eurasian littoral had enough surplus worthy of stealing on the part of its rulers.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
Noun
  • The former Neuhoff slaughterhouse on the waterfront near Germantown is in the midst of a transformation that includes dining, residential and a great brewery.
    Adam Tamburin, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
  • They got married at their home in Illinois On Sept. 16, 2023, Corgan and Chloe tied the knot at their 1929 waterfront estate in Highland Park, welcoming 100 guests for an intimate ceremony and reception.
    Makena Gera, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In the middle of the night, a fire on a playground on Cincinnati's riverfront grew into a roaring fireball that caused significant damage to the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, a major artery connecting the city to Northern Kentucky.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • After settlers pressured the government for more riverfront lands, that reservation was dissolved by presidential order.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Fourteen of 23 crocodilian species dig burrows, including the Chinese alligator (alligator sinensis), which also creates an extensive tunnel system on riverbanks.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • An amateur archaeologist first spotted a bone sticking out of the riverbank in 1996.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Opening in the same year was the elegant Interlaken Hotel, on the shores of Twin Lakes, a gorgeous but ultimately doomed retreat for well-off visitors.
    James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Lido.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lido. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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