tramontana

American  

[trah-muhn-tah-nuh, -tan-uh, trah-mawn-tah-nah] / ˌtrɑ mənˈtɑ nə, -ˈtæn ə, ˌtrɑ mɔnˈtɑ nɑ /

noun

plural

tramontanas,

plural

tramontane

1. a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.

2. any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.

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Etymology

Origin of tramontana

1605–15; < Italian, noun use of feminine of tramontano tramontane

Example Sentences

The weather has cleared; slight tramontana, pure sky, with white storm- or snow-clouds collected like rolled-up curtains, everywhere on the horizon.

From The Spirit of Rome by Lee, Vernon

The howling mistral or tramontana makes the doors bang, the reeds scream, and a range of noises that make the great, natural clamour all around.

From Letters from my Windmill by Daudet, Alphonse

At Perugia, last spring, through weeks of tramontana, how one yearned for the sight of yellow English primroses!

From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant

The tramontana visited it then as now, fever, too, and sudden death.

From Imperial Purple by Saltus, Edgar

But we have had and are having some cold, some tramontana, and I have kept house ever since.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir