Angles

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Angles \An"gles\, n. pl. [L. Angli. See {Anglican}.] (Ethnol.)
     An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which
     came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The
     Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within
     the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover,
     etc.


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