Shan|gri-la

Shan|gri-la
Shan|gri-la or Shan|gri-La «SHANG grih LAH», noun.
an idyllic earthly paradise: »

The austere serenity of Shangri-La. Its…pale pavilions shimmered in repose from which all the fret of existence had ebbed away (James Hilton).

[< the name of an inaccessible land in the remote Himalayas in Lost Horizon, 1933, a novel by James Hilton]

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