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tramontane |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence a foreigner; a stranger. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, a. [OF. tramontain It tramontano, L. transmontanus trans across beyond + mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence foreign; barbarous. Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See {Ultramontane}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tramontane adj 1: on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds" [syn: {transmontane}] [ant: {cismontane}] 2: being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences" n : a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: {tramontana}]
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