colour bar
noun
Meaning
- The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people.
- A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages.
- (jewellery) In a rough opal: a layer of good jewellery-quality opal.
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