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
Or is it what adds to the local colour of the Giro?
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
Tagalog words intermittently scattered around for local colour, exotically italicised.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2010
"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
As to the unemployed, they present the usual features of the class, somewhat intensified by local colour.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
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