Brigadoon
noun
any romantically idealized place or phenomenon.
Brigadoon-like
-
a word derived from
Brigadoon.
Example Sentences
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“The Big Goodbye,” with a title referring in part to the Brigadoon-like Hollywood that would vanish after “Chinatown” was made, is full of wild tidbits about where parts of the film came from.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2020
And yet, to adults, the adolescent mind is a mystery—a Brigadoon-like place that’s at once vivid and inaccessible.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2015
