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View synonyms for color line

color line

[ kuhl-er lahyn ]

noun

  1. Also called col·or bar [kuhl, -er bahr]. social or political restriction or distinction based on differences of skin pigmentation, as between white and Black people.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of color line1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. draw the color line, to observe a color line.
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Example Sentences

Who did and didn’t have air-conditioning often fell starkly along the color line, too, especially in the South.

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Private establishments held a firm color line, as did public transit.

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Instead, the outrage and anger was defined by the color line.

W.E.B. DuBois once prophesized that the 20th century would be about the color line.

It would serve us all well to know how porously open we all are to models of behavior far beyond the color line.

Wherever the discussion began it promptly shaded off toward the color-line and insult.

Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.

This amendment wiped out the color-line in politics so far as any written law could possibly do it.

They were not at all sure that the color-line could be peacefully drawn.

And yet no color line has excluded, no reservation boundary separated, this people from their fellow countrymen.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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