Also 8 Wolock, 9 Wallack. [See VLACH.]
1. A member of a Romanic-speaking race widely disseminated in south-eastern Europe, principally in Rumania: = VLACH.
1786. trans. J. R. Forster’s Hist. Voy. North, 101, note. The Walachs, or Wolocks.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., XXV. 730/1. The Wallacks [are] scattered over the whole province [of Transylvania].
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 146. A few Wallachs, Armenians, and Franks.
1886. W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 179. It was he (being a Wallack, just as Jano is), who instigated the Wallacks on our estate when they robbed and devastated the country in the Rebellion.
b. attrib.
1864. Chamb. Encycl., VI. 513. A petty Walach chief of Transylvania.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 16. A Wallach shepherd was tending his flock of goats.
1905. Westm. Gaz., 24 May, 8/2. Full liberty is granted for the use of the Wallach language in schools and churches.
2. The language of the Walachs. rare-–0.
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict.
