बेल्जियम में रहने वाले फ्रेंच भाषी लोगों का एक सदस्य

Noun:

वालूनी बोली, वालूनी,

walloon's Usage Examples:

With a population of 60,000, and 8000 workers in copper, it was one of the most flourishing cities in Walloon Belgium until it incurred the wrath of Charles the Bold.

In June 1623, however, New Netherland was formally erected into a province and the management of its affairs assigned to the Chamber of Amsterdam, which in March 1624 despatched the " New Netherland," with the first permanent colonists (thirty families mostly Walloon), under Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, the first governor or director of the colony.

The chapel was allocated as a place of worship by Queen Elizabeth to certain Protestant Walloon refugees.

This word is supposed to be derived from the Walloon hoie, corresponding to the medieval Latin hullae.

Ath is also well known in Hainaut for its annual fete called le jour de ducasse - ducasse being the Walloon word for kermesse (fete).

Further, one-third of the Belgian provinces was inhabited by a Walloon population divided from the Flemings by racial characteristics and their use of a Romance instead of a Teutonic dialect.

There is a Walloon robett.

This feeling was widespread throughout the Walloon provinces, and found expression in the League of Arras (5th of January 1579).

Irritated and alarmed, the governor suddenly left Brussels in the month of July with some Walloon troops and went to Namur.

The primatial see was placed at Malines (Mechlin), having under it Antwerp, Hertogenbosch, Roermond, Ghent, Bruges, and Ypres constituting the Flemish province; the second archbishopric was at Cambray, with Tournay, Arras, St Omer, and Namur, - the Walloon province; the third at Utrecht, with Haarlem, Middleburg, Leeuwarden, Groningen and Deventer, - the northern (Dutch) province.

walloon's Meaning':

a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium