"yellow horde" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: yellow hordes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} yellow horde (plural yellow hordes)
  1. (derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) 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. Tags: capitalized, derogatory, sometimes Categories (topical): Racism Related terms: yellow peril Translations (racially offensive term denoting East Asian nations or people): gule horde [masculine] (Norwegian)

Inflected forms

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