Carlist

American  

[kahr-list] / ˈkɑr lɪst /

noun

1. a supporter of the claims of Don Carlos of Spain or of his successors to the Spanish throne.

2. a partisan of Charles X of France, and of the elder branch of the Bourbons.

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Carlist British  

/ ˈkɑːlɪst /

noun

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

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

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Other Word Forms

• Carlism noun

Etymology

Origin of Carlist

1820–30; < Spanish carlista or French carliste; -ist

Example Sentences

The unification was not popular with either the Falangist or the Carlist militants, but under the existing conditions of total civil war, the immense majority accepted Franco’s initiative.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2017

By 3:30 p. m. red-bereted Carlist militiamen were marching into Gij�n's streets under hundreds of white flags of surrender, most of them rudely made from bed sheets.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were as strange a mixture as can be found in a Catalan bouillabaisse: Bourbon Generals and aristocrats, plutocrats, devout and royalist Carlist Requet�s, radical Fascist Falangists, Moors, Germans, Italians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requet�s, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some of the best battalions he ever had in the Spanish Civil War.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are often disappointed, for the precious life is jealously guarded, especially while the Carlist cloud still broods above the throne.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee