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CARBONARO
Car`bo*na"ro, n.; pl. Carbonari. Etym: [It., a coal man.]
Definition: A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic.
Note: The origin of the Carbonari is uncertain, but the society is said to have first met, in 1808, among the charcoal burners of the mountains, whose phraseology they adopted.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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