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Tramontane

noun
1.
A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean.  Synonym: tramontana.



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"Tramontane" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Ladies, permit me,"—a wave of his hand toward his escort, who were now also on foot. "Colonel Robertson, Captain Clonder, Captain Brooke, Mr. Haward, Mr. Beverley, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Fontaine, Mr. Todd, Mr. Mason,—all of the Tramontane Order. For myself, I am Alexander ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
... pronounced Corteho, with an aspirate, according to the Arabesque guttural. It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever. ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron


Words linked to "Tramontane" :   norther, northerly, transalpine, boreas, cismontane, foreign, tramontana, strange, north wind


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