1
: a member of a people of southern and southeastern Belgium and adjacent parts of France
2
: a French dialect of the Walloons
Walloon
adjective
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Called Randall’s Point on Walloon Lake, the 15-acre estate features a main log home, three guest cabins and over 2,100 feet of Walloon Lake frontage.
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Paul Welitzkin, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
Belgium’s Freaks Factory is a joint venture between Walloon production company Frakas Prods.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
Oh, and be sure to ask for a complimentary Hotel Walloon Kids Activity Kit, which keeps kids entertained by keeping their eyes peeled for objects throughout Walloon Lake Village on a special scavenger hunt that results in a prize at the end.
—Esther Carlstone, Parents, 18 Dec. 2024
Hotel Walloon: Walloon Lake, Michigan This 32-room lakeside property has made it onto one of T+L’s World’s Best Lists since 2022.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Along with Ellerbe Fine Foods, Lili’s Bistro and Walloon’s, Cat City is one of Magnolia Avenue’s great local, independent dinner restaurants.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2024
An only child, she was born in 1954 in Verviers, Belgium, where generations of her family, Catholic and Walloon, had been employed in a textile industry that dated back to the Middle Ages.
—Carl Swanson, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Consider a stay at Hotel Walloon, which takes its name from the nearby lake and was voted the best resort in the Midwest of 2023 by T+L readers.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2024
Born a Walloon, the French-speaking ethnic group in Belgium, Sante immigrated to New Jersey with her parents in the nineteen-sixties.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
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Paul Welitzkin, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2025
Belgium’s Freaks Factory is a joint venture between Walloon production company Frakas Prods.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
Oh, and be sure to ask for a complimentary Hotel Walloon Kids Activity Kit, which keeps kids entertained by keeping their eyes peeled for objects throughout Walloon Lake Village on a special scavenger hunt that results in a prize at the end.
—Esther Carlstone, Parents, 18 Dec. 2024
Hotel Walloon: Walloon Lake, Michigan This 32-room lakeside property has made it onto one of T+L’s World’s Best Lists since 2022.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Along with Ellerbe Fine Foods, Lili’s Bistro and Walloon’s, Cat City is one of Magnolia Avenue’s great local, independent dinner restaurants.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2024
An only child, she was born in 1954 in Verviers, Belgium, where generations of her family, Catholic and Walloon, had been employed in a textile industry that dated back to the Middle Ages.
—Carl Swanson, Vulture, 9 Feb. 2024
Consider a stay at Hotel Walloon, which takes its name from the nearby lake and was voted the best resort in the Midwest of 2023 by T+L readers.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2024
Born a Walloon, the French-speaking ethnic group in Belgium, Sante immigrated to New Jersey with her parents in the nineteen-sixties.
—Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
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“Walloon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Walloon. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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