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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Etymology
Origin of tramontana
1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane
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When the tramontana blew, he was comfortable enough.
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston
The sea was foaming under the tramontana, and its foam took colour from the declining sun.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
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
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
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 Roget, Peter Mark
It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
The inhabitants of tramontane Virginia are very imperfectly acquainted with its history.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
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