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Colour line

noun

Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites. Synonyms: color bar, color line, colour bar, Jim Crow.

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... with whiskers like the notes on a Swiss music-box cylinder, and a scroll in his right hand like the ones they write births on in the family Bible. Well, that chocolate potentate used to be the biggest item of interest anywhere between the colour line and the parallels of latitude. It was three throws, horses, whether he was to wind up in the Hall of Fame or the Bureau of Combustibles. He'd have been sure called the Roosevelt of the Southern Continent ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

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Words linked to "Colour line" : colour bar, jim crow, color bar, color line, ideological barrier