local colour


noun
  1. the characteristic features or atmosphere of a place or time

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How to use local colour in a sentence

  • What you will take for local colour is nothing but our mental life-blood, which she has mercilessly drawn to stain her verses.

  • Neither sentiment nor local colour suggests the prairie or the camp.

    American Sketches | Charles Whibley
  • The very words "local colour" are a modern phrase for an idea that never occurred to the artists of ancient uncritical ages.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • Now we contend that old uncritical poets no more sought for antique "local colour" than any other artists did.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • Their suppression would have been unfair to Gozzi, and would have shorn his Memoirs of some brilliant bits of local colour.