Brigadoonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -uːn

名詞

Brigadoon (plural Brigadoons)

1. A place that seems magically transient.
   • 1985, Mike Scott (lyrics and music), “The Whole of the Moon”, in This Is The Sea, performed by The Waterboys:

     I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon

   • 1988 July, Cruise Travel, volume 10, number 1, page 46:

     A mile walk took us into Mountshannon, a sort of Brigadoon, so quiet in the warm sun we thought it deserted.

   • 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...

派生語

• Brigadoonery
• Brigadoonish

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