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local colour

noun

  1. the characteristic features or atmosphere of a place or time
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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

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

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

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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