color line

English

Noun

color line (plural color lines)

  1. Synonym of colour bar
    • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 82:
      Antimiscegenation laws were directed primarily at people of color and at low-status, disreputable whites, the poor white trash who refused to uphold the color line.
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