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Definition: LOCAL COLOR |
LOCAL COLOR1. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Splash of Local Color (1916) Local Color on the A-1 Ranch (1916) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A well-known local color author was Mark Twain with his books Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Failed attempts to use local color correctly have resulted in considerable criticism for some authors.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Local color."
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cor[ner] Rivington St[reet] & Bowery, in search of local color. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
local color | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "LOCAL COLOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 郷土色 , 地方色 , レ点 (LAN, law, local, local area network, local content, local minima, local news, local observer, low, low absorber, low angle, mark showing character order in Chinese texts, raw, row, tick mark). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ローカルカラー , きょうどしょく, ちほうしょく. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocallay olorcay yöresel özellikler (local colour). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-l-l-l-o-o-o-r" | |
-3 letters: corolla. | |
-4 letters: collar, rococo. | |
-5 letters: carol, claro, cocoa, color, coral, local, loral. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-l-l-l-o-o-o-r" | |
+5 letters: chronologically. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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