0 the special or unusual features of a place, especially as described or shown in a story, picture, or film to make it seem more real
Furthermore, it retains the local colour of speech and its typical expressions.
At the same time it demonstrates pentecostalism's remarkable capacity to take on local colour in different contexts.
This is the context most appropriate for the display of exotic touches or local colour, whether geographical or social.
The poet's images are primal and not technologised at all, evoking local colour through such words as baboon and monkey.
As described later, the visualization is accomplished by an electrochemical reaction which results in local colour changes of the fluid.
Attention to details of local colour is rarely - if ever - motivated solely by entertainment values.
The third level, which might have functioned as 'background' elsewhere but which predominates here, consists of depicting ambience or local colour, defined either in historical or ethnic terms.
The handicraft, of course, is given a local colour wherever possible.