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tramontana [trah-muh n-tah-nuh, -tan-uh; Italian trah-mawn-tah-nah] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural tra·mon·ta·nas, Italian tra·mon·ta·ne [trah-mawn-tah-ne] /ˌtrɑ mɔnˈtɑ nɛ/.
- a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
- any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.
Origin of tramontana 1605–15; Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane Examples from the Web for tramontana Historical Examples of tramontana
Tramontana and sirocco alternate, and each is more unendurable than the other.
Lilian Whiting
This is slenderer and smaller than the l-qrgha of those countries (Tramontana).
Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
The wind freshened; the tramontana, that piercing wind from the Alps, was beginning to blow.
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
The tramontana blew steadily from the north, whistling monotonously in the ears.
The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Humyn and those come with him from that side (Tramontana), who had never seen one before, were much entertained.
Babur, Emperor of Hindustan