lido

Tinside Pool in Plymouth

Meaning

Noun

Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
An outdoor swimming pool.

Origin

After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido, from Latin litus (hence also English littoral). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.

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