Synonyms for local color

Grammar : Noun

Définition of local color

noun regional character

Example sentences :

Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology and suggestion.
Extract from : « Wayside Courtships » by Hamlin Garland

The magazine is full of the neighborhood and gay with local color.
Extract from : « The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 » by Albert Smyth

The "local color" has, perhaps, not been squeezed from too many tubes.
Extract from : « A Man of Two Countries » by Alice Harriman

We travelled second class to-day, "for local color," as Zelphine says.
Extract from : « Italian Days and Ways » by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

Local color in the modern sense was invented in the present century.
Extract from : « Talks on Writing English » by Arlo Bates

They even grew more vehement in their pursuit of local color.
Extract from : « A Fortnight of Folly » by Maurice Thompson

Colorado is full of local color, even to the naming of its drinks.
Extract from : « The Terms of Surrender » by Louis Tracy

There is no local color, and no character-drawing, in The Captive.
Extract from : « The Journal of Arthur Stirling » by Upton Sinclair

There must have been a touch of local color in this romance.
Extract from : « Parisians in the Country » by Honore de Balzac

The atmosphere and local color, having an authenticity of their own, are not to be challenged.
Extract from : « Ponkapog Papers » by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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