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
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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 William Dean Howells
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
The sea was foaming under the tramontana, and its foam took colour from the declining sun.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
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 Alphonse Daudet
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
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. 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
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 N. Parker Willis
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 Charles Campbell
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