Front | brigadoon \brih-guh-DOON\ |
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Back | noun A place that is idyllic, unaffected by time, or remote from reality. [From Brigadoon, a village in the musical of the same name, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, based on the story Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstacker. Brigadoon is under a spell that makes it invisible to outsiders except on one day every 100 years.] "There is a feel of Brigadoon to Cooperstown, the lush village of baseball and opera tucked into the middle of an idyllic nowhere in upstate New York." - Elisabeth Bumiller, Cooperstown, The New York Times, Jul 1, 2001. |
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