lido

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Recent Examples of lido The show will delve into swimming’s evolution over the past century in three locations: the pool, the lido, and nature. George Nelson For Artnews, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2024 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
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
  • Disneyland guests can register for DAS online or in person at an Accessibility Services Kiosk in the esplanade between Disneyland and Disney California Adventure.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Naturally, such a riverside jewel is rarely available, so expect 182 Winding River Road in Wellesley to be hotly pursued.
    Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
  • In recent years, officials tried to tamp down the partying, closing many of its riverside bars after dozens of fatal tubing accidents.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
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
  • Bayside opened in 1987 along the waterfront in downtown Miami, and attracted tourists and locals with a mix of boutiques, bars and restaurants.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Where to stay and eat, and how to get around Courtesy of Visit Lake Tahoe Head to Riva Grill for mouthwatering steaks, seafood, and sandwiches on the waterfront.
    Visit Lake Tahoe, AFAR Media, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Image The ship’s peeling black hull loomed over the industrial riverfront at Pier 82, opposite fast-food restaurants and an IKEA store across South Christopher Columbus Boulevard, as tugboats nudged the ship about 100 feet across the slip, a process that took hours.
    Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Other major infrastructure projects will likely work in the mayor’s favor, most notably a new park covering part of I-95 that will reconnect the Delaware riverfront to the Society Hill and Old City neighborhoods.
    Richardson Dilworth, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The riverbank across is still open and leafy, a throwback to what the town used to be.
    Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Local officials said a barrier near the river broke as throngs of people were walking toward the riverbanks to take their holy dip in the Indian city of Prayagraj.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025

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“Lido.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lido. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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