"Brigadoon" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Brigadoons [plural]
Rhymes: -uːn 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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Brigadoon (plural Brigadoons)
  1. A place that seems magically transient. Categories (topical): Fictional locations Derived forms: Brigadoonery, Brigadoonish
    Sense id: en-Brigadoon-en-noun-4U8eRUze Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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