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Tramontane

adjective

On or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker). Synonym: transmontane. "Tramontane winds"

Being or coming from another country.

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"Tramontane" Quotes from Famous Books

... made in the affection of the other, even before they were aware of the danger. He believed that the match was in every respect such as to flatter the ambition of Mr. Falkland; and he was stung even to madness by the idea of being deprived of the object dearest to his heart by this tramontane upstart. ...

— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... for aught I know, would have filled as many thousand wagons." 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 ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 379, Saturday, July 4, 1829. • Various

... revive these tramontane expeditions was General Ashley, of Missouri, a man whose courage and achievements in the prosecution of his enterprises have rendered him famous in the Far West. In conjunction with Mr. Henry, already mentioned, he established a post on the banks ...

— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

... The piercing Tramontane came down upon us in the Bay of Naples with so fierce a blast that we doubted if we were not in Iceland, and were glad to make our escape to Rome, where we found an asylum in the Hotel de Minerve, not far from the Pantheon. Many of the old palaces and convents of Italy have been transformed ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 86, February, 1875 • Various

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