local colour
the characteristic features or atmosphere of a place or time
Words Nearby local colour
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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.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland | Kate Douglas WigginNeither sentiment nor local colour suggests the prairie or the camp.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleyThe 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 LangNow we contend that old uncritical poets no more sought for antique "local colour" than any other artists did.
Homer and His Age | Andrew LangTheir suppression would have been unfair to Gozzi, and would have shorn his Memoirs of some brilliant bits of local colour.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo Gozzi
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