Brigadoon

English 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.Shelby Barry Frommer's Edinburgh and Glasgow John Wiley & Sons Chichester, West Sussex 2011 978-0-470-71123-1 254 Pronunciation en /ˌbrɪɡ.əˈdun/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Brigadoon.wav Southern England en Brig a doon en uːn 3 Noun A place that seems magically transient. en The Whole of the Moon I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon 1985 Mike Scott The Waterboys This Is The Sea en July 1988 Cruise Travel 10 1 46 A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted. en 2003 George Howe Colt The big house: a century in the life of an American summer home 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... Derived terms en Brigadoonery en Brigadoonish References en Fictional locations