tramontane

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In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, George III issued a proclamation prohibiting colonial settlement in the lands west of the tramontane, or the Allegheny Mountain range, the better to regulate, control and tax the American colonists.

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  1. adjective Dwelling beyond or coming from the far side of the mountains, especially the Alps as viewed from Italy.
  2. adjective From another country; foreign.
  3. noun A person who lives beyond the mountains.

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  1. Italian tramontano, from Latin trānsmontānus : trāns-, trans- + montānus, of a mountain; see mountain.

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  1. I. a. Formerly also tramountain, q. v.; from Old French tramontain =Spanish Portuguese tramontano, from Italian tramontano, beyond the mountains, from Latin transmontanus, beyond the mountains, from trans, beyond, + mon (t-)s, mountain: see mount, mountain. Cf. ultramontane. II. n. from Old French (and F.) tramontane =Provencal trasmontana, tramontana, tremontana, the polar star, also the north wind, =Spanish Portuguese Italian tramontana, from Latin transmontana (sc. stella), the polar star, thus named in Provence and in the north of Italy, because it is there visible beyond the Alps.
 

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/træˈmɑnteɪn/
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