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local colour

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
local colour

▶noun

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.

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