1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Carbonaro \Car`bo*na"ro\, n.; pl. {Carbonari}. [It., a coal man.] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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