tramontane
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Being or situated beyond the mountains—that is, the Alps.
- adjective Coming from the other side of the mountains.
- noun One who lives beyond the mountains; hence, a stranger.
- noun The north wind.
Examples
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Parting from thence, they sailed away with a tramontane or northerly wind, passing by Meden, by Uti, by Uden, by Gelasim, by the Isles of the Fairies, and alongst the kingdom of Achorie, till at last they arrived at the port of Utopia, distant from the city of the Amaurots three leagues and somewhat more.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The story, therefore, of the ancient philosopher whose bald pate one of these unlucky birds mistook for a stone, and dropped a shell upon it, thereby killing at once both, is not so tramontane as to stumble all belief.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829
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The seas were heavy and motley like a peacock's tail and the waves stirred up by the gay gusts of the tramontane, tossed their white crests under a sparkling and perfectly clear sky.
Note
This word is Latin in origin by way of Italian.
