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Definition
an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language
- A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.Chapter 7 (88% in)
- "Please don't be quite so colloquial—or shall I say VULGAR?"Chapter 14 (56% in)
- "I'll be as damn colloquial as I want to.Chapter 14 (56% in)
There are no more uses of "colloquial" in Main Street.
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