tramontane
Americanadjective
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being or situated beyond the mountains.
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beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine.
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of, relating to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.
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foreign; barbarous.
noun
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a person who lives beyond the mountains: formerly applied by the Italians to the peoples beyond the Alps, and by the latter to the Italians.
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a foreigner; outlander; barbarian.
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a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.
adjective
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being or coming from the far side of the mountains, esp from the other side of the Alps as seen from Italy
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foreign or barbarous
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(of a wind) blowing down from the mountains
noun
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an inhabitant of a tramontane country
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Also called: tramontana. a cold dry wind blowing south or southwest from the mountains in Italy and the W Mediterranean
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rare a foreigner or barbarian
Etymology
Origin of tramontane
1300–50 for an earlier sense; 1585–95 tramontane for def. 5; Middle English tramountayne pole star < Italian tramontano < Latin trānsmontānus beyond the mountains. See trans-, mount 2, -an
Example Sentences
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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
Nay, even countries as presumptuously disdainful of tramontane literature as Italy took an interest in this memorable undertaking.
From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas
De beoples gazed mit staunischment as bey dem he go vheelin, He look ganz oltra tramontane, so twisty vas his reelin.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
The tramontane concerns of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company were managed by two resident partners, Fitzpatrick and Bridger; those of the American Fur Company, by Vanderburgh and Dripps.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
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