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.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tramontana
1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane
Example Sentences
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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 Chartres, Annie Vivanti
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
At Perugia, last spring, through weeks of tramontana, how one yearned for the sight of yellow English primroses!
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant
A fresh tramontana was blowing, and made Katy glad to draw her shawl about her.
From What Katy Did Next by Coolidge, Susan
"Quesebi: y dende aqui adelante da vuelta la costa a maestro y tramontana hasta la boca del Rio eufrates y comienca en esa vuelta una tabla berohu caljar," et cetera.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte
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