color bar

1. 1.

   barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites

   Synonymscolour barcolor linecolour lineJim Crow

   Broaderideological barrier

Questions about color bar

What does color bar mean?

color bar means "barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites".

What is another word for color bar?

Close synonyms include colour bar, color line, colour line, Jim Crow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is color bar a common word?

color bar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.