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.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tramontana
1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane
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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
The howling mistral or tramontana makes the doors bang, the reeds scream, and a range of noises that make the great, natural clamour all around.
From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse
But the climate of Rome was considered by Dr Gresonowsky more suitable for winter, and towards the close of November they took their departure, flying from the Florentine tramontana.
From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward
The rain came down in bucketsful, which the tramontana then obligingly threw in your face….
From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse
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
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
De beoples gazed mit staunischment as bey dem he go vheelin, He look ganz oltra tramontane, so twisty vas his reelin.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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
The tramontane winds come down from the Appenines so sharply, that delicate constitutions, particularly those liable to pulmonary complaints, suffer invariably.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker
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