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tramontane
[ truh-mon-teyn, tram-uhn-teyn ]
adjective
- being or situated beyond the mountains.
- beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine.
- of, relating to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.
- foreign; barbarous.
noun
- 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.
- a foreigner; outlander; barbarian.
- a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.
tramontane
/ ٰəˈɒԳٱɪ /
adjective
- being or coming from the far side of the mountains, esp from the other side of the Alps as seen from Italy
- foreign or barbarous
- (of a wind) blowing down from the mountains
noun
- an inhabitant of a tramontane country
- Also calledtramontana a cold dry wind blowing south or southwest from the mountains in Italy and the W Mediterranean
- rare.a foreigner or barbarian
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tramontane1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of tramontane1
Example Sentences
The tramontane winds come down from the Appenines so sharply, that delicate constitutions, particularly those liable to pulmonary complaints, suffer invariably.
Ah! for heaven's sake, my dear creature!" exclaimed my husband, "don't mention the tramontane.
Now, half a degree the other way, in the tramontane region north of the Ridges, they found themselves in the presence of a vegetation that spoke of an advance, however minute, towards the pole.
I have forgotten whether it was the mistral or the tramontane, and I do not think it matters.
He cast not a glance at the pretty faces of the young Englishwomen, with whose blue veils the tramontane played.
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