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transmontane

[trans-mon-teyn, tranz-, trans-mon-teyn, tranz-]
adjective
  1. tramontane.
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Origin of transmontane

1720–30; < Latin trānsmontānus; see trans-, mount2, -an
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Historical Examples of transmontane

  • Of these numbers the transmontane country had but eighty delegates and nine senators.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

    Various

  • In the Virginia and Pennsylvania capitals, the transmontane country was still a misty region.

    Afloat on the Ohio

    Reuben Gold Thwaites

  • There had always been a disparity between the people of these transmontane counties and the tide-water region.

    Stephen A. Douglas

    Allen Johnson

  • Now shall ye know, that against the Transmontane is the tother star that is clept Antarctic, as I have said before.

British Dictionary definitions for transmontane

transmontane

adjective, noun
  1. another word for tramontane
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