yellow peril

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   the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples

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Questions about yellow peril

What does yellow peril mean?

yellow peril means "the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples".

Is yellow peril a common word?

yellow peril is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.