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Carbonari

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Carbonari [ˌkɑːbəˈnɑːrɪ]
pl n sing -naro [-ˈnɑːrəʊ]
(Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) members of a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
[from Italian, plural of carbonaro seller or burner of charcoal, name adopted by the society]


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"Ah, ah," murmured he, "is Dantes then a member of some Carbonari society, that his protector thus employs the collective form?
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