Definition of "tinge" []

• To apply a trace of color to; tint. (verb-transitive)
• To affect slightly, as with a contrasting quality: "The air was blowy and tinged with rain” ( Joyce Carol Oates). (verb-transitive)
• A small amount of a color incorporated or added. (noun)
• A slight added element, property, or influence: a tinge of regret. (noun)

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• "These particular notes filled me with a desire for etymology and philology, but also a desire for the worlds of the other old languages mentioned, the mythology harbored in the consciousness tinged (tinge is weak) by that medium."
• "Petey, everything you write has a certain tinge of melancholy."
• "Anyway, Los Siete Castigos is filled with tracks like this, that take their sweet time unfolding - much like Villalobos 'most recent work (see his Perlon 12 Chromosul) - with highly developed shuffling rhythms, many of which take on a Latin tinge with slices of congas and other elements reminiscent of his South American roots."