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

Prince Ga�tan of Bourbon-Parma, and accompanied by another uncle, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, he wore in their honor the red beret of the Carlist royalists, spoke fluent Spanish.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

You see how a Carlist officer makes war!...

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando