brigadoon

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von brigadoon im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A place that seems magically transient

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.

{i} Broadway musical written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe in 1947 about an enchanted Scottish village; quaint peaceful place that seems unconnected to everyday reality

Etymologie

() After the village in a 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner, which appears for only one day every hundred years.