Meanings
yellowman1
plural yellowmen
- alternativeAlternative form of yellow man.
In the United States we see going on a commingling of types of mankind, of all nationalities, whitemen, blackmen, yellowmen, redmen, producing an amalgam […]
1878 February 11, “This Newfoundland of Ours: A lecture delivered by the Rev. M. Harvey”, in Across Newfoundland with the Governor, page 1042 more examples
That which the complaints of the ousted white labourers had been unable to effect — the expulsion of the yellowmen who undersold them in the labour-market […]
1891, Francis William Bain, Antichrist: A Short Examination of the Spirit of the Age, page 95[If they] hope to prospect peaceably and thus avoid trouble with the yellowmen they will be disappointed; I know the pigtails too well, and I also know they have found something good or they wouldn't have risked a fight with such a party as we were.
1909, Robert Maclauchlan Macdonald, Chillagoe Charlie, page 181
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