local colour

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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Now we contend that old uncritical poets no more sought for antique "local colour" than any other artists did.

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Their suppression would have been unfair to Gozzi, and would have shorn his Memoirs of some brilliant bits of local colour.

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