carbonaro Meaning, Definition & Usage

Car`bo*na"ro noun

Etymology

It., a coal man.

Wordforms

plural Carbonari

Definitions

1. 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. ✍ 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.