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Walloons  n. pl.  (singular Walloon) 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. (Written also Wallons.) "A base Walloon... thrust Talbot with a spear."
Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.






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... it bloated with tears and blood. It is full of robberies, massacres, and murders. As specimens, look at the Murder of John Brown by Claverhouse; the massacre of St. Bartholomew; the sack of Magdeburg, when the Croats amused themselves with throwing children into the flames, and Pappenheim's Walloons with stabbing infants at their mothers' breasts. Who ordained these and a thousand such horrid deeds? The Confession says that God ordained them, for He foreordains whatsoever comes to pass. Tilly, the queen-mother, the infamous Catherine de ...
— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace



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