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color line
[ kuhl-er lahyn ]
noun
- Also called col·or bar [kuhl, -er bahr]. social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and Black people.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of color line1
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Idioms and Phrases
- draw the color line, to observe a color line.
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Example Sentences
Instead, the outrage and anger was defined by the color line.
W.E.B. DuBois once prophesized that the 20th century would be about the color line.
It would serve us all well to know how porously open we all are to models of behavior far beyond the color line.
Wherever the discussion began it promptly shaded off toward the color-line and insult.
Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
This amendment wiped out the color-line in politics so far as any written law could possibly do it.
They were not at all sure that the color-line could be peacefully drawn.
And yet no color line has excluded, no reservation boundary separated, this people from their fellow countrymen.
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