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Definition of color bar noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

color bar

noun

(Canadian English usually colour bar) noun

(also color line Canadian English usually, colour line) [usually singular]

a social system which does not allow black people the same rights as white people South Africa's color bar made marriages between different races illegal.

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