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Noun: colour bar
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: color bar)
  1. Barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
    - color bar [US], color line [US], colour line [Brit, Cdn], Jim Crow

Derived forms: colour bars

Type of: ideological barrier

Encyclopedia: Colour bar