color line
[kuhl-er lahyn]
/ ˈkʌl ər ˌlaɪn /
NOUN
discriminatory barrier separating nonwhite people from white people
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Example Sentences
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And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
From The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
