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May 15, 2002
This week's themeToponyms This week's words doolally siberia lido Rosetta stone pharos ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garglido(LEE-do)![]() noun: 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.]
"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." See more usage examples of lido in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. X-BonusIllness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world. -Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990) |
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