colour line
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of floral tributes of every colour line the castle's gates, gleaming in the mid-morning sunshine.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2022
“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.
From Reuters ● May 12, 2020
Gwilym Mumford Part one of Ken Burns's superb documentary on Jack Johnson, who in 1908 became the first black heavyweight champion, defying all attempts to draw a "colour line".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 15, 2013
Collette was widely recorded and was a mentor to younger players, and was especially proud to have breached the colour line in Hollywood's television and recording studios.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2010
Silver tops to everyone of them—and that girl to turn round as she did, and her with an Uncle in the oil and colour line, too—it nearly broke GEORGE'S 'art!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 by Various
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