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Pronunciation : Car`bo*na"ro
Part of Speech : n.;
Etymology : [It., a coal man.]
Definition : Defn: 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.

pl. Carbonari.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913