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Walloons

noun

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

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... Emperor's host in its brave show of silver and plumes and gold, the plunder of many campaigns under its invincible leader, looked with contempt upon the travel-worn Swedes in their poor, soiled garb. The stolid Finns sat their mean but wiry little horses very unlike Pappenheim's dreaded Walloons, descendants of the warlike Belgae of Gaul who defied the Germans of old in the forest of the Ardennes and joined Caesar in his victorious march. But Tilly himself was not deceived. He knew how far this enemy had come and with what ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... vernacular school may then be said to be essentially a product of the Protestant Reformation. This is true in a special sense among those peoples which embraced some form of the Lutheran or Calvinistic faiths. These were the Germans, Moravians, Swedes, Norwegians, Finns, Danes, Dutch, Walloons, Swiss, Scotch, Scotch-Irish, French Huguenots, and the English Puritans. As the Renaissance gave a new emphasis to the development of secondary schools by supplying them with a large amount of new subject-matter and a new motive, so the Reformation movement gave ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

Words linked to "Walloons" : ethnic group, ethnos