tramontana

American  

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

noun

plural

tramontanas,

plural

tramontane

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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Etymology

Origin of tramontana

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

Example Sentences

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

"What I cannot understand," said Astrardente, muffling his thin throat more closely against the keen bright tramontana wind, "is that such old fellows as Saracinesca should still want to play a part in the world."

From Saracinesca by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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

From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse

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 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