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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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 Annie Vivanti Chartres
We are all well, though it is much too cold for me—a horrible tramontana which would create a cough under the ribs of death, and sets me coughing a little in the morning.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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
"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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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
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
The inhabitants of tramontane Virginia are very imperfectly acquainted with its history.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
The glowing reports of the charms of the tramontane country induced other pioneers to plant themselves in that wild, picturesque region.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
One of the first to revive these tramontane expeditions was General Ashley, of Missouri, a man whose courage and achievements in the prosecution of his enterprises have rendered him famous in the Far West.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
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