Colour Bar

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• colour bar — n [C usually singular] BrE a set of laws or social customs that prevents black people from going to the same places or taking part in the same activities as white people American Equivalent: color line …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• colour bar — noun barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites • Syn: ↑color bar, ↑color line, ↑colour line, ↑Jim Crow • Hypernyms: ↑ideological barrier * * * colour bar noun Social discrimination …   Useful english dictionary

• colour bar — noun a) The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people. That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside… …   Wiktionary

• Colour bar — Le Colour bar (la barrière de couleur en français) est un terme qui évoque une pratique empirique de discrimination raciale utilisée dans les anciennes colonies britanniques en Afrique (Kenya, Rhodésie, Union sud africaine...) et en Asie (Inde,… …   Wikipédia en Français

• colour bar — /ˈkʌlə ba/ (say kuluh bah) noun an economic, political, or social barrier separating peoples of different colour, especially one separating non whites from whites. Also, color bar …  

• colour bar — BrE color bar AmE noun (countable usually singular) a set of laws or social customs that prevent people of different races from going to the same places or taking part in the same activities; color line AmE …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• colour bar — UK / US noun [singular] a set of laws or customs, especially in the past, intended to stop black and white people living and working together and having equal status in society …   English dictionary

• BAR — 1. n., v., & prep. n. 1 a long rod or piece of rigid wood, metal, etc., esp. used as an obstruction, confinement, fastening, weapon, etc. 2 a something resembling a bar in being (thought of as) straight, narrow, and rigid (bar of soap; bar of… …   Useful english dictionary

• bar — 1. n., v., & prep. n. 1 a long rod or piece of rigid wood, metal, etc., esp. used as an obstruction, confinement, fastening, weapon, etc. 2 a something resembling a bar in being (thought of as) straight, narrow, and rigid (bar of soap; bar of… …   Useful english dictionary

• colour — n. & v. n. (US color) 1 a the sensation produced on the eye by rays of light when resolved as by a prism, selective reflection, etc., into different wavelengths. b perception of colour; a system of colours. 2 one, or any mixture, of the… …   Useful english dictionary