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Normans, n. [Altered f. e.m.E. Norman(e a. (1589), after Scott(i)s etc.] Norman-French (language). —a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 213.
The laws of England which William the Conqueror imposed … mufled up in barbarous Normans