tramontana
Americannoun
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tramontanas,
plural
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tramontane
plural
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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
Example Sentences
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But we have had and are having some cold, some tramontana, and I have kept house ever since.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
Again a beautiful tramontana sprang up, and in a vessel of first-rate sailing powers, would almost have brought us in.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
The north wind is scarce at this time of the year, but a beautiful tramontana blew during the time we were working out of the Bocca.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
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 William Dean Howells
We came here, flying from the Florence tramontana, at the very close of November, on the Perugia road, after having been weather-bound at Casa Guidi till we almost gave up our Roman plan.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Adj. distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to &c. v.; yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine†, transpontine†, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane†; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached†, unapproachable; incontiguous†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Nay, even countries as presumptuously disdainful of tramontane literature as Italy took an interest in this memorable undertaking.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
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