colour linecolor linen.

Brit.

/ˈkʌlə lʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˈkələr ˌlaɪn/

Forms: see colour n.¹ and line n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: colour n.¹, line n.¹

Etymology: < colour n.¹ + line n.¹ With sense 2 compare slightly earlier colour bar n. 1.

1. In plural. In seal-engraving: hatching (hatching n.³) indicating the tinctures of the various elements of the coat of arms represented on the seal.

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1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. xxxv. 1357 The colour lines are sometimes cut before the bearings are sunk, but at other times they are left until nearly all the other details have been completed.

1879 R. Assheton Pedigree Family of Feilden 19 There is also another document..sealed with apparently the same identical seal. Neither impression shews any colour lines.

2. Originally and chiefly U.S. An enforced separation between white people and black people (or occasionally those of other racial groups) in a country, community, or establishment.

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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > segregation or discrimination > against black people > line of demarcation

colour line1874

1874 Jackson (Mississippi) Weekly Clarion 13 Aug. 2 Protesting heretofore against the ‘color line’, it was plainly to be seen by the complexion of their ticket that they had themselves drawn it in their own party.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 491 We shall soon cease to hear of a color-line.

1903 Daily Mail 9 Sept. 3/6 No colour-line is drawn at the great restaurants and hotels.

1944 M. L. King Papers (1992) 110 We cannot have a healthy nation with one tenth of the people ill-nourished, sick, harboring germs of disease which recognize no color lines—obey no Jim Crow laws.

1950 Phylon 11 26 Courts and policemen have long enforced the color line by greater readiness to arrest a Negro (say for ‘loitering’ in a white residential area).

2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard Introd. 5 The problem of the colour-line continues to haunt Jamaica. The lighter your complexion, the more privileged you are likely to be.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	colour line
释义	colour linecolor linen. Brit. /ˈkʌlə lʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈkələr ˌlaɪn/ Forms: see colour n.¹ and line n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: colour n.¹, line n.¹ Etymology: < colour n.¹ + line n.¹ With sense 2 compare slightly earlier colour bar n. 1. 1. In plural. In seal-engraving: hatching (hatching n.³) indicating the tinctures of the various elements of the coat of arms represented on the seal. ΚΠ 1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. xxxv. 1357 The colour lines are sometimes cut before the bearings are sunk, but at other times they are left until nearly all the other details have been completed. 1879 R. Assheton Pedigree Family of Feilden 19 There is also another document..sealed with apparently the same identical seal. Neither impression shews any colour lines. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. An enforced separation between white people and black people (or occasionally those of other racial groups) in a country, community, or establishment. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > segregation or discrimination > against black people > line of demarcation colour line1874 1874 Jackson (Mississippi) Weekly Clarion 13 Aug. 2 Protesting heretofore against the ‘color line’, it was plainly to be seen by the complexion of their ticket that they had themselves drawn it in their own party. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 491 We shall soon cease to hear of a color-line. 1903 Daily Mail 9 Sept. 3/6 No colour-line is drawn at the great restaurants and hotels. 1944 M. L. King Papers (1992) 110 We cannot have a healthy nation with one tenth of the people ill-nourished, sick, harboring germs of disease which recognize no color lines—obey no Jim Crow laws. 1950 Phylon 11 26 Courts and policemen have long enforced the color line by greater readiness to arrest a Negro (say for ‘loitering’ in a white residential area). 2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard Introd. 5 The problem of the colour-line continues to haunt Jamaica. The lighter your complexion, the more privileged you are likely to be. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850
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