ANGLO-NORMAN
ANGLO-NORMAN.
1. Of the Normans in England or both the Normans and the indigenous English: Anglo-Norman culture
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2. Of NORMAN FRENCH as used in England or a contact language mixing French and English, used between the Normans and their subjects: ‘The Anglo-Norman jargon was only employed in the commercial intercourse between the conquerors and the conquered’ ( George Ellis, Specimens of the Early English Poets, 1801).
1. Of the Normans in England or both the Normans and the indigenous English: Anglo-Norman culture
.
2. Of NORMAN FRENCH as used in England or a contact language mixing French and English, used between the Normans and their subjects: ‘The Anglo-Norman jargon was only employed in the commercial intercourse between the conquerors and the conquered’ ( George Ellis, Specimens of the Early English Poets, 1801).
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