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Noun: color line
Usage: US (elsewhere: colour line)
  1. Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
    - color bar [US], colour bar [Brit, Cdn], colour line [Brit, Cdn], Jim Crow

Derived forms: color lines

Type of: ideological barrier

Encyclopedia: Color line