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Brigadoon, n.
Brit. |ˌbrɪgəˈduːn|, U.S. |ˌbrɪgəˈdun|
[‹ Brigadoon, the name of a fictional Scottish Highland village which materializes for only one day every hundred years, in the 1947 musical of that name by A. J. Lerner and F. Loewe, which was the basis of a popular film adaptation of 1954.]
In allusive use. A place, person, or phenomenon likened in some way to Brigadoon, esp. on account of its mythical or idealized nature, its (romanticized) Scottishness, or its rare, fleeting appearance or occurrence.
[1965Times 16 Dec. 11/4 If this folklore village does get going, may it be like Brigadoon..[and] become visible only once in a hundred years. ]1968Times 23 Mar. 19/1 An expatriate [in Scotland]..would, however, find comfort in his TV Times, Coronation Street, Peyton Place, and Double Your Money are all there. Brigadoon is still a global village. 1971Jrnl. Finance 26 582 Too often, it seems, the characteristics of such goods are acknowledged as ‘relevant’ and then ‘forgotten’ and ‘wished away’, as it were, into the ‘mists of Brigadoon’. 1987P. O. Whitmer & B. VanWyngarden Aquarius Revisited vii. 67 For a brief, Brigadoon moment, Sal Mineo sleeps peacefully and Dean and Natalie Wood lounge innocently on a bed talking out fantasies about the future. We knew it could never last. 1992I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 55 Barman: (Southern English accent.) Hoi! No aggravation! We don't want the tourists getting a bad impression of Scotland, right? Nesbitt: Oh aye? And tell me, what part of Brigadoon are you from, Hamish? 2000N.Y. Times 16 Jan. iv. 17/2 Internet investors..will sorely miss the glass barrier that kept them sequestered in a financial Brigadoon of fantasy prices and cloudless skies. |