colour line

noun

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

Example Sentences

Hundreds of floral tributes of every colour line the castle's gates, gleaming in the mid-morning sunshine.

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At the heart of aspirations of the decade, in the air that the young Donald Harris and Barack Obama Sr breathed, was an anti-racist politics that was determined to abolish the global colour line.

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It’s a story about twin sisters, Desiree and Stella, who decide to live their lives on opposite sides of the colour line – one as a white woman and one as a black woman.

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“I’m sure if it wasn’t for Joe Louis, the colour line in baseball would not have been broken for another 10 years,” he said.

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"Within days of the Wall going up, it was being used to talk about the colour line in the US," Farber says.

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