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
Their suppression would have been unfair to Gozzi, and would have shorn his Memoirs of some brilliant bits of local colour.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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