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Walloon, n. and a.|wəˈluːn|
Also 6 Vallon, 8 Waloon, 6– Wallon.
[a. F. Wallon (fem. Wallonne), n. and a.:—med.L. Wallōn-em, f. Teut. *walah, walh, foreigner (OE. wealh): see Welsh a. The name represents the appellation given by the Teut. Flemings and Franks to their Romanic-speaking neighbours.]
A. n.
1. A man or woman of the race, of Gaulish origin and speaking a French dialect, which forms the chief portion of the population of the south-eastern provinces of Belgium.
1567Gresham in Burgon Life (1839) II. 208, I sawe never men so desperate, willing to fight: and speciallie the Vallons. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1145/1 A rumor..that the Lantgraues capteine should be slaine by some Wallons. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. i. 137 A base Wallon..Thrust Talbot with a Speare into the Back. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 41 The Regent, beside the German Souldiers,..commanded another Regiment of Walloons to be forthwith raised; for by that name, the people in that part of the Netherlands, which borders upon France, are called, and are distinguished from the others, by the use of the French Tongue, and beside, are more valiant, and not so dull-witted as the rest. 1650Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars ix. 54 Some companies of Wallons were also ordered to bring scaling-ladders. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 209 Fifty companies of Spaniards, and one hundred and fifty of Walloons, and other natives of the Netherlands. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 332/2 The Wallons..are thus Romanized Gauls. 191619th Century Oct. 717 In the defence of their national territory Flemings and Walloons have alway been so closely united that it would be impossible to distinguish them.
2. The language or dialect of the Walloons.
1642Howell Instr. For. Trav. x. (Arb.) 48 The French have three dialects, the Wallon (vulgarly called among themselves Romand), the Provensall,..and the speech of Languedoc. 1815R. B. Bernard Tour France etc. 292 The lower orders in this city speak a jargon called Walloon, which is completely unintelligible to the higher classes. 1914E. Gosse in Edin. Rev. Oct. 314 The less known..new school of authors, composing ardently in Flemish and even to some extent in Walloon.
Comb.191819th Century Nov. 833 A few Walloon-speaking villages along the German frontier.
B. adj. Pertaining to the Walloons.
1530Palsgr. 35 The kynde of speche nowe called Vallon or Romant. Ibid. 286/2 Wallon tonge, Romant. a1600Hist. Fryer Bacon in Thoms E.E. Pr. Rom. (1858) I. 226 He hyred a Walloon souldier. 1709Steele Tatler No. 13 ⁋2 Monsieur Bosnage, Minister of the Walloon Church at Rotterdam. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xiii. 97 One of my comrades of the Walloon Guard. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 332/2 The Wallon domain comprises the four provinces of Hainault, Namur, Liége, and Luxemburg. 1911G. P. Gooch Hist. Our Time x. 236 Where the Walloon miners and factory-workers of the South confront the Catholic Flemings of the North. |