Meaning of colour bar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people.
   UK
2. A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages.
   UK
3. A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal.
   UK

Examples

“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.’”

“In my hometown of Portsmouth there was a riot in 1943, with the locals scorning attempts by American military policemen to enforce a color bar in the pubs.”

“A plaque commemorating the memory of British Rail guard Asquith Xavier, who broke the colour bar at Euston station in 1966, was unveiled at Chatham station on September 24.”

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