color line

noun

Also called color bar. social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and black people.

Idioms

draw the color line, to observe a color line.

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism

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WordNet

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

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It may have looked that way on the white side of the color line.

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