tramontana

American  

[trah-muhn-tah-nuh, -tan-uh, trah-mawn-tah-nah] / ˌtrɑ mənˈtɑ nə, -ˈtæn ə, ˌtrɑ mɔnˈtɑ nɑ /

noun

tramontanas, plural tramontane plural

1. a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.

2. any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tramontanas
  plural
• tramontane
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tramontana

1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane

Example Sentences

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tramontana tramontane

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 Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

At Perugia, last spring, through weeks of tramontana, how one yearned for the sight of yellow English primroses!

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant

The rain came down in bucketsful, which the tramontana then obligingly threw in your face….

From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse

A cloudless sky; broad sunshine, warm as in an English summer; but the roaring tramontana was disagreeably chill.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George

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

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

Now, half a degree the other way, in the tramontane region north of the Ridges, they found themselves in the presence of a vegetation that spoke of an advance, however minute, towards the pole.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane. excluded &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Early in April, 1756, another Indian irruption, led on by the French, spread consternation in the tramontane country, and threatened to exterminate the inhabitants.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles