Meaning of carbonari | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Members of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy, often with a patriotic and liberal focus.
   historical, plural, plural-normally
2. member or members of the carboneria secret society

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Examples

“I saw Sir Hudson Lowe standing on the same rug with one of Buonaparte's old generals; one of our Tory members, to whom innovation is the 'word of fear,' who considers anarchy and annihilation as synonymous, shrinking in the doorway from the carbonari atmosphere of General Pepi.”

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