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yellow hordes

yellow hordes is the plural of yellow horde.

Meaning of yellow horde

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

Questions about yellow hordes

What is yellow hordes the plural of?
Yellow hordes is the plural of yellow horde.

Words near yellow hordes in the dictionary

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