"colour bar" meaning in English

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      "form": "colour bars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 205",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 October 7, “Network News: Plaque at Chatham honours colour bar pioneer”, in Rail, page 26",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people."
      ],
      "id": "en-colour_bar-en-noun-ib7I4s0E",
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        ],
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          "barrier",
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        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
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          "white",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0 0",
          "word": "color line"
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          "word": "color bar"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Printing",
          "orig": "en:Printing",
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            "Industries",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
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            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages."
      ],
      "id": "en-colour_bar-en-noun-H-NVckLi",
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        [
          "pattern",
          "pattern"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing) A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Jewelry",
          "orig": "en:Jewelry",
          "parents": [
            "Clothing",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "jewelry",
          "jewelry"
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        [
          "opal",
          "opal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(jewelry) A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "jewelry",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colour bar"
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  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "colour bar (plural colour bars)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 205",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 October 7, “Network News: Plaque at Chatham honours colour bar pioneer”, in Rail, page 26",
          "text": "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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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The segregation of people of different colour or race, especially any barrier to black people participating in activities with white people."
      ],
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          "segregation",
          "segregation"
        ],
        [
          "race",
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        ],
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          "barrier",
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        ],
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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    },
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        "A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages."
      ],
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          "pattern",
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        "(printing) A pattern of varying tonal density that enables visual and numeric comparisons to be made across multiple printed sheets or pages."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Jewelry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal."
      ],
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          "jewelry",
          "jewelry"
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          "opal",
          "opal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(jewelry) A layer of good jewellery-quality opal within a rough opal."
      ],
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        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
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        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "color line"
    },
    {
      "word": "color bar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "colour bar"
}