Walloons, name given to the descendants of the ancient Belgæ, a race of a mixed Celtic and Romanic stock, inhabiting Belgium chiefly, and speaking a language called Walloon, a kind of Old French; in Belgium they number to-day two and a quarter millions.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Waller, Edmund * Walpole, Horace