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Walloons

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Part of the great Romaic stock. They occupied the low track along the frontiers of the German-speaking territory, as Artois, Hainault, Namur, Liège, Luxemburg, with parts of Flanders and Brabant. (See Wales.)

“The Wallons … are the Romanised Gauls, lineal representatives of the ancient Belgæ.”—Encyclopœdia Britannica, vol. xxi. p. 332.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Walker’s Bus
Walking Gentleman (A)
Walking Sword (A)
Walkyries (The)
Wall (The)
Wall
Wall-eyed
Walls have Ears
Wallace’s Larder
Wallflower
Walloons
Wallop
Wallsend Coals
Walnut [foreign nut]
Walnut Tree
Walpurgis Night
Walston (St.)
Walter Multon
Waltham Blacks
Walton
Walton Bridle (The)

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Walloons