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yellow horde

yellow horde noun: east Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

Noun

yellow horde (plural yellow hordes)

  1. (capitalized, derogatory, sometimes, racially offensive) East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
    • As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26
    • So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs.1994 December 18, Steven Erlanger, “The World: Demons in Russia's Mind Arise Again—in the Flesh”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Jul 2008

Forms of yellow horde

pluralyellow hordes

Questions about yellow horde

What does yellow horde mean?
Yellow horde means east Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
What part of speech is yellow horde?
Yellow horde is a noun.
What is the plural of yellow horde?
The plural of yellow horde is yellow hordes.

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