colour bar


noun
  1. discrimination against people of a different race, esp as practised by White people against Black people

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How to use colour bar in a sentence

  • Besides, she was gradually realising the existence of the "colour bar," illiberal as she considered it to be.

    The Elephant God | Gordon Casserly
  • America can now say with pride that she has abolished the colour bar.

    What I Saw in America | G. K. Chesterton