What does colour line mean?

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

What is another word for colour line?

Close synonyms include color bar, colour bar, color 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 line a common word?

colour line 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.

colour line — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
Synonymscolor bar colour bar color line Jim Crow
Broaderideological barrier

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