Both Uses
segregation
in
The Handmaid's Tale
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- This rope segregates us, marks us off, keeps the others from contamination by us, makes for us a corral or pen; so into it we go, arranging ourselves in rows, which we know very well how to do, kneeling then on the cement floor.†
Chpt 33
- Salvagings are always segregated.†
Chpt 42 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(segregation) the act of keeping people or things separate -- especially people due to discrimination based on race, gender, ethnicity, or religion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)