colour bar

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   barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites

   Synonymscolor barcolor linecolour lineJim Crow

   Broaderideological barrier

Questions about colour bar

What does colour bar mean?

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

What is another word for colour bar?

Close synonyms include color 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 colour bar a common word?

colour bar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.