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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun walloons has 1 sense

walloons(n = noun.group) - an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France;

CIDE DICTIONARY

walloons, n. pl. [Cf. F. wallon.].

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. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.