color-line

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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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