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color line
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color line
(noun)
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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
Jackie Robinson broke American baseball's
color line
. [=he was the first black man to play professional baseball with white players]
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called also
(British)
colour bar
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