color line
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color line
noun
color line
noun
Learner's definition of COLOR LINE
[singular]
US
:
a set of customs or laws that does not allow black people to do the same things or be in the same places as white people
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Jackie Robinson broke American baseball's color line. [=he was the first black man to play professional baseball with white players]
— called also
(British)
colour bar
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