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tramontana

[ trah-muh n-tah-nuh, -tan-uh; Italian trah-mawn-tah-nah ]

/ ˌtrɑ mənˈtɑ nə, -ˈtæn ə; Italian ˌtrɑ mɔnˈtɑ nɑ /

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noun, plural tra·mon·ta·nas, Italian tra·mon·ta·ne [trah-mawn-tah-ne] /ˌtrɑ mɔnˈtɑ nɛ/.

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

any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.

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Origin of tramontana

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

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for tramontana

This is slenderer and smaller than the l-qrgha of those countries (Tramontana).
The Bbur-nma in English|Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
But we have had and are having some cold, some tramontana, and I have kept house ever since.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II|Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Humyn and those come with him from that side (Tramontana), who had never seen one before, were much entertained.
The Bbur-nma in English|Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
We should all be ghosts, of course, but the more easily could the sun warm us through in spite of the tramontana.
Roman Holidays and Others|W. D. Howells

At Perugia, last spring, through weeks of tramontana, how one yearned for the sight of yellow English primroses!
Post-Prandial Philosophy|Grant Allen