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colour bars

colour bars is the plural of colour bar.

Meaning of colour bar

Noun

colour bar (plural colour bars)

  1. (UK) 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 and said, ‘Nelson, we have no colour bar here at the law firm.’1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 83
    Synonyms:
    color line
  2. (UK) A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages.
  3. (UK) A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal.

Questions about colour bars

What is colour bars the plural of?
Colour bars is the plural of colour bar.

Words near colour bars in the dictionary

  1. colour analyst
  2. colour analysts
  3. colour announcer
  4. colour announcers
  5. colour bar
  6. colour bars
  7. colour blind
  8. colour blindness
  9. colour blindnesses
  10. colour centre
  11. colour charge

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