yellow perils

English

Noun

yellow perils

  1. (uncommon) plural of yellow peril
    • 1900 December, Lloyd Sanders, “The Yellow Perils”, in The Anglo-Saxon Review, volume VII, page 102:
      Thus two Yellow Perils are flashed upon the screen: the Yellow Peril directed by the native Government, and that taken under control by the Powers, or some of them, to their ultimate bedevilment.
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