| 单词 | local colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslocal colour local colour n. (esp. with reference to works of art or literature) evocative representation of the customs, manner of speech, dress, or other features characteristic of a particular place or period; (also) such features themselves, picturesque qualities; (occasionally, as a count noun) a detail, description, etc., which evokes these features. [Compare French couleur locale (1811; earlier as a technical term in painting in sense ‘the distinctive, natural colour of an object or place’ (1699); compare sense A. 8).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally decoruma1568 humoura1568 variety1597 strength1608 uniformity1625 barbarity1644 freedom1645 boldness1677 correctness1684 clinquant1711 unity1712 contrast1713 meretriciousness1727 airiness1734 pathos1739 chastity1760 vigour1774 prettyism1789 mannerism1803 serio-comic1805 actuality1812 largeness1824 local colour1829 subjectivitya1834 idealism1841 pastoralism1842 inartisticalitya1849 academicism1852 realism1856 colour contrast1858 crampedness1858 niggling1858 audacity1859 superreality1859 literalism1860 pseudo-classicism1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 chocolate box1865 pseudo-classicality1867 academism1871 actualism1872 academicalism1874 ethos1875 terribilità1877 local colouring1881 neoclassicism1893 mass effect1902 attack1905 verismo1908 kitsch1921 abstraction1923 self-consciousness1932 surreality1936 tension1941 build-up1942 sprezzatura1957 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > colour natural to an object local colour1829 1829 Western Monthly Rev. Nov. 245 The neglect of local colors so common in Shakspeare, is an unimportant consideration. a1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xiii. 469 The Greek catalogue is charged throughout with what I may call local colour and visual epithets; epithets which..raise up a prospect or scene before the mental eye of a reader or a hearer. 1878 H. James Europeans I. i. 37 Brought up among ancient customs and in picturesque cities, he yet found plenty of local colour in the little Puritan metropolis. 1904 F. M. Colby Imaginary Obligations 7 Stupendous ‘local color’ work going on at every railway junction, and you heed it not. 1934 Amer. Speech 9 111/2 Villages with ‘local color’. 1949 A. Huxley Let. 6 Mar. (1969) 593 About the country in which they lived you might consult, for local colour, a travel book by..Freya Stark. 1964 Life 1 May 16/3 The plot..is spiced by a dollop of sex in one sequence, a lot of tasteful local color, and a fine, screaming climax. 2001 N.Y. Times 6 Dec. e5/6 The score is bleached Puccini: no tunes, no characterization, no local color. < as lemmas |
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