colour line

noun

1. the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line )

Example Sentences

So long as the colour line is the dividing line in politics, so long will there be trouble.

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Brazil has never had a “colour line,” and there has never been any popular prejudice against race mixtures.

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It proves that there is neither caste, creed nor colour-line in the pocket-book.

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I might fix up a black gin for him, but I suppose he'd draw the colour line.

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The colour line is drawn, but neither race knows just where it is.

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