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local color

noun as in regional character

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Paul Psychiatrists per capita: 44 Stress: 51 Eccentricity: 15 Drinking: 30 (tie) Local Color: At the Minneapolis-St.

The latter came to rough it in local color, the former to dream of a better world.

It was Harwood's habit to spend a day in the towns he visited, gathering local color and collecting anecdotal matter.

Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology and suggestion.

A third paper may speak of an interesting theme which may be called the local color of songs.

As to style, no one cared for that, not even the author; as to ideas—zero; as to local color—non est.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to local color, such as: ambience, color, evocation, feel, note, and regional detail.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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