Carlist

Car·list

(kär′lĭst)

A supporter of Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, or his heirs.

Car′list adj.

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Carlist

(ˈkɑːlɪst)

1. (Historical Terms) (in Spain) a supporter of Don Carlos or his descendants as the rightful kings of Spain

2. (Historical Terms) (in France) a supporter of Charles X or his descendants

ˈCarlism n

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Translations

Carlist

[ˈkɑːlɪst]

A. ADJ → carlista

B. N → carlista mf

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But it was a Carlist salon, and as such we were made welcome.

For she was a Carlist, and of Basque blood at that, with something of a lioness in the expression of her courageous face (especially when she let her hair down), and with the volatile little soul of a sparrow dressed in fine Parisian feathers, which had the trick of coming off disconcertingly at unexpected moments.

She had an uncle still living, a very effective Carlist, too, the priest of a little mountain parish in Guipuzcoa.

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At once it occurred to Mills that this eccentric youngster was the very person for what the legitimist sympathizers had very much at heart just then: to organize a supply by sea of arms and ammunition to the Carlist detachments in the South.

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To own the truth to you, I am a Carlist, as all genteel articles are, and I enter but little into the subject of Louis Philippe's reign."

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This led to the Carlist Wars but that's another story.

Diamonds, Dogs, and Dinero

The First Steps of the Catholic Social Action in Zamora and the Involvement of the Carlist leaders (1891-1912)

El Circulo Catolico de san Martin Cid. Primeros pasos de la accion social catolica en Zamora e implicacion de los lideres carlistas en ella (1891-1912)

Gil Gonzalez explains that "The political and ideological instrumentation of the comic strip had already been tested in Spain during the Civil War by tebeos such as the Falangist Flechas or the Carlist Pelayos."