tramontana
Americannoun
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a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
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any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tramontana
1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane
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When the tramontana blew, he was comfortable enough.
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston
We should all be ghosts, of course, but the more easily could the sun warm us through in spite of the tramontana.
From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean
He will not so much need them out-of-doors in a Genoese January, unless a tramontana is blowing, and there was none on our half-day.
From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean
I have taken to ass's milk to counteract the tramontana, and he is in the twenty-first and I in the twenty-second volume of Alexandre Dumas's 'Memoirs.'
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
The glow of the west was on his pure young face, and the wind of the tramontana raised his waved hair and blew it lightly across his forehead.
From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti
Perpignan's tramontane, a strong, cold wind that sweeps along the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean, kept the orchestra grabbing for their music, finally made them clip the sheets to the racks with clothespins.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the second night's concert, the tramontane brought an unseasonable downpour that soaked the motionless audience to the skin before the concert was called off.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane. excluded &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Ah! for heaven's sake, my dear creature!" exclaimed my husband, "don't mention the tramontane.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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