Brigadoon

Brig·a·doon
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/ˌbrɪɡ.əˈdun/

noun

A place that seems magically transient.

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Meanings

nounBrigadoon (plural Brigadoons)

plural Brigadoons

  1. A place that seems magically transient.

    I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon

    1985, Mike Scott, “The Whole of the Moon”, in This Is The Sea, performed by The Waterboys
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    A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted.

    1988 July 28, Cruise Travel, volume 10, number 1, page 46

    But low tide allowed us to walk on tiptoes along an underwater sandbar, and explore the tide pools, miniature maritime Brigadoons in which we'd find crabs...

    2003, George Howe Colt, The big house: a century in the life of an American summer home

Origin

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.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with Brigadoon

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Cite this entry
APA

Brigadoon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Brigadoon

MLA

“Brigadoon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Brigadoon. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Brigadoon,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Brigadoon.

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