local colour
Britishnoun
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He had chosen Ford and Aly as local colour for his prepared shtick, a routine that he could have done just about anywhere.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2017
Are they just a local colour morph, or something more interesting?
From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2014
Or is it what adds to the local colour of the Giro?
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
"And, with hindsight, one can see that adding a bit of local colour like that is asking for trouble but we didn't really spot that at the time."
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2010
The novelty of these paintings, devoted to the cult of "local colour," caused them to be adopted as "romantic."
From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Walter Shaw Sparrow
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