Meaning of yellow horde | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

capitalized, derogatory, sometimes

Examples

“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.”

“So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs.”

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