local colour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Tagalog words intermittently scattered around for local colour, exotically italicised.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010
The 45-minute claim was put in late and was a "bit of local colour" the secret service would allow to be used.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2010
The book is full of local colour and gives an exceedingly vivid picture of lay and ecclesiastical life in medieval Germany.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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