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yellow horde en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (capitalized, derogatory, qualifier:racially offensive, sometimes) 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.
   • 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:
   • 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:

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Relateds

yellow peril

Translations (1)

no gule horde (racially offensive term denoting East Asian nations or people)