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Colour bar

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people. UK

    "That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside and said, ‘Nelson, we have no colour bar here at the law firm.’"

  2. 2
    barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites wordnet
  3. 3
    A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages. UK
  4. 4
    A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal. UK

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