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colour line

noun

  1. the social separation of racial groups within a community (esp in the phrase to cross the colour line )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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