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| Car·bo·na·ri [ kbə nree ] |
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members of Italian political group: in early 19th-century Italy, members of a secret society that sought to establish a unified liberal republican government
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| [Early 19th century. < Italian, plural of carbonaro "charcoal burner" < Latin carbon- "coal"; from their use of symbols from the charcoal-burning trade] |
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