English Explanatory Dictionary

Brigadoon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A place that seems magically transient.

Word forms

Brigadoon Brigadoons

Etymology

After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Derived words

Brigadoonery Brigadoonish
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