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  • noun Plural form of Carlist.

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Examples

  • "The CEDA I can guarantee, and probably the Carlists will go along, but who can tell about the Falange?"

    DBTL 48: With Enemies Like These Johnny Pez 2009

  • "The CEDA I can guarantee, and probably the Carlists will go along, but who can tell about the Falange?"

    Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • The Carlists supported a strengthened monarchy based on anti-modernist principles and a firm reliance on the traditional teachings of Catholic Church which unfortunately in their view also included the reinstatement of a state-run, but clerically administered Inquisition.

    Archive 2008-04-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • My guess is that they will linger around on the fringes for a few years to come and will be a sort of bizarre historical curiosity whose continued existence will be a surprise to most, a bit like the Carlists in Spain.

    Another nail in the coffin Johnny Guitar 2008

  • The Carlists supported a strengthened monarchy based on anti-modernist principles and a firm reliance on the traditional teachings of Catholic Church which unfortunately in their view also included the reinstatement of a state-run, but clerically administered Inquisition.

    Franco, The Church and the Fight for Spain's Soul de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Continental aristocracy, such as old Rolls, the baker, who has set up his quarters in the Faubourg Saint Germain, and will receive none but Carlists, and no French gentleman under the rank of a

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Those Carlists make a great consumption of cartridges.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • Why they were Carlists they could perhaps no more say than I could.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • Their being always Carlists would certainly be no reason with me, for I was never a Carlist; and perhaps my liking is only a prejudice in their favor from the air of thrift and work which pervades their beautiful province, or is an effect of their language as I first saw it inscribed on the front of the Credit Lyonnais at Bayonne.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • The Carlists were defeated with the help of the Quadruple Alliance of Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal (See 1834–39).

    f. The Iberian Peninsula 2001

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