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Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman \Anglo-Norman\, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England.

Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman \Anglo-Norman\, n.

  1. One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered England.

  2. the French (Norman) language used in medieval England.

    Syn: Anglo-French

Usage examples of "anglo-norman".

All the above peculiarities reappear in the Anglo-Norman law, and from that day to this all kinds of bailees have been treated as having possession in a legal sense, as I shall presently show.

It is not told at all in English chronicles, but every historian after the conquest told it—at least five Normans, including the designer of the Bayeux tapestry, and four of the rather later Anglo-Norman writers in England.

No, sir knight, neither Comyn nor Baliol, nor any other of the Anglo-Norman nobles who hold estate in Scotland, have a right to speak for her, or to barter away her freedom.

Pass splendid specimens of Anglo-Norman architecture, pass pedestrians and pederasts, open hearth furnaces, basic Bessemer mills, dynamos and transformers, pig iron castings and steel ingots.