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 Car·bo·na·ro n.; pl. Carbonari   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.
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