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Lido di Venezia

Name: Lido di Venezia
Address: IT

45.3833°N 12.3500°E · Q226221

One English word in this atlas traces back to Lido di Venezia. It sits in Italy.

All of Italy

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lidonoun · 20th century

Well attested

British swimming pools are named for a Venetian sandbar.

The Lido is the barrier island that shelters the Venetian lagoon, and its beach resort was fashionable in the 1920s. Britain applied the name to municipal pools.

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