What (who) is local colour - definition
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Local colorist; Local colour; Local Colour; Local Color; Local color (disambiguation); Local Color (album)
local colour
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1. the characteristic customs or other aspects of a place or period.
2. Art the actual colour of a thing in ordinary daylight, without the influence of other colours in proximity.
local colour
Note: in AM, use 'local color'
Local colour is used to refer to customs, traditions, dress, and other things which give a place or period of history its own particular character.
The fishing boat harbour was usually bustling with lots of local colour.
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Local purchasing
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A PREFERENCE TO BUY GOODS PRODUCED NEARBY
Buy local; Local economy; Locavorian; Localized economy; Buy local movement; Spend local
Local purchasing is a preference to buy locally produced goods and services rather than those produced farther away. It is very often abbreviated as a positive goal, "buy local" or "buy locally', that parallels the phrase "think globally, act locally", common in green politics.
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Local color
Local color/colour may refer to:
- Local Color (book), a 1950 note and sketch study by Truman Capote
- Local Color (Mose Allison album), 1958
- Local Color (University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One album), 2015
- Local Color (film), a 2006 film starring Trevor Morgan
- Local color (visual art), the natural color of an object
- Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia, a 1994 book by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton
- Local Color, a short-story collection by John Andrew Rice
- Local Color, an art exhibition by Tullio DeSantis
- American literary regionalism, also called local color, a style or genre of writing
Examples of use of local colour
1. You‘re not even local colour, or sheep noises off.
2. The only local colour along the road, which is in good condition, is provided by vendors of cloudberries, cranberries, and chantarelle mushrooms.
3. Any local colour to help those of us staring at computer screens all day?" It‘s sunny but hazy, John, as it has been every morning so far.
4. Few were interested in this piece of local colour, until an expedition in 1'21, which catapaulted the yeti into the international imagination.
5. The alleged roughness of his technique appears to our post–Impressionist, post–Fauve eyes as precise enough and appropriately sensitive to the surprises of light and the complements of local colour.