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yellow man

n. offensive term for an Oriental man

Usage examples of "yellow man".

He was a lean, long, yellow man, with a small head, bald over the top, and tufted at the back and about the ears.

I thought of the horrible little yellow man who lay dead in Wyatt's Buildings.

They passed around us quietly, the little yellow man leading, with his curious, lithe gait, and the other, an impassive Chinaman, following.

A hideous yellow man with a scarred face entered, carrying a tray upon which were a bowl containing some steaming fluid, apparently soup, what looked like oaten cakes, and a flask of red wine.

My daughter, too, saw this prowling, person, over by the Roman castrum, and described him as a yellow man.