color line

color line

noun
1.
Also called color bar. social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and black people.
2.
draw the color line, to observe a color line.

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Color line is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism
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color line

noun
barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites [syn: color bar
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