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Walloons

noun
1.
An ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France.





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... first administration of the Lord's Supper which was observed, not without great joy and comfort to many, we had fully fifty communicants—Walloons and Dutch; of whom, a portion made their first confession of faith before us, and others exhibited their church certificates. Others had forgotten to bring their certificates with them, not thinking ...
— Narrative of New Netherland • Various
... by them Belgae. The relics of this appellation are found in the German "Welschland," the name given to Italy, because the northern part of that peninsula had a Keltic population, in Wallachia, in the Walloons of the Netherlands, who have lately assumed the old Latinized name of Belgians, and in the Welsh of our ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge


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