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Jim-crow   Listen
adjective
Jim-crow  adj.  For negroes only; set aside for used of negroes as a policy of racial discrimination.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jim-crow" Quotes from Famous Books



... spilling the beans. Why they didn't take their time, recapture that freighter and give her skipper a chance to hustle across to San Francisco or Honolulu and intern, is a mystery to me. The idea! Why, for that German fleet to waste ammunition on that Jim-Crow town and a hand-me-down gunboat was equivalent to John L. Sullivan whittling out a handle on a piece of two-by-four common fir in ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... 'They puts him over the jump at Seven Rivers. You see this Rattlesnake—they calls him Rattlesnake Bark in them later years—is bunked down in one of these yere jim-crow, barn-board hotels. Thar's a resoundin' form of guest in the adjoinin' room, snorin' to beat four kings an' a ace. Rattlesnake tries poundin' on the partition, an' sw'arin' at him, an' callin' him a hoss thief. It's no avail. The snores of that boarder sounds like sawin' planks, an' fa'rly rocks ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis



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