local colour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He had chosen Ford and Aly as local colour for his prepared shtick, a routine that he could have done just about anywhere.
From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2017
Are they just a local colour morph, or something more interesting?
From Scientific American • Mar. 5, 2014
Despite being one of the first mysteries set in Africa – but not sub-Saharan Africa – it has very little local colour.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2010
"And, with hindsight, one can see that adding a bit of local colour like that is asking for trouble but we didn't really spot that at the time."
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2010
In each district it adopted a new local colour.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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