Meanings of local colouring in English

But these are simply interesting incidentals giving local colouring to John's story.

The broad outlines are the same in each case, while the local colouring varies.

All the details have been published-theusual newspaper details, with Fleet Street local colouring.

H.M. Wallis has kindly supplied me with some local colouring and information about Adrianople.

From England, around 1883, he wrote, Methinks there is danger in the feeling expressed about ' local colouring.'

His manner of interweaving Spanish national airs is particularly successful, because they tinge the piece with peculiar local colouring.

Such a thing would, of course, be impossible with us, but it is a bit of true local colouring here.

The local colouring is distinctly good; the children are alive, and talk like real children; the incidents are natural and well described.

When attempting the historical novel, in which his persons are typical rather than individual, he still preserves this exactitude of local colouring.

There will be a deal of local colouring, descriptions of Florence and the neighbourhood, and I shall also introduce some humorous characters.

The traditions concerning races that have been destroyed, and the renewal of nature, scarcely vary in reality, though every nation gives them a local colouring.