walloons

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural Written also Wallons. A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liége, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively.
• noun plural the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.

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• noun an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France