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tramuntana Spanish
tramontana A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean.
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The tramontana visited it then as now, fever, too, and sudden death.
2
Probably a sudden call from the tramontana brought it; even frost we had.
3
But we have had and are having some cold, some tramontana, and I have kept house ever since.
4
At Perugia, last spring, through weeks of tramontana, how one yearned for the sight of yellow English primroses!
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Stepping warily over the crazy floors of these vast rooms, one does not envy Taglioni when the Tramontana blew.
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Next morning I fled-fled to Milan-wasstabbed there by the Tramontana, fell ill, escaped to Genoa, and there recovered.
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Also the east wind, which has been blowing steadily for ten days, and is nearly as keen as the Tramontana.
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Oviedo (Historia General de las Indias) sometimes names this gulf the Arcipelago de La Tramontana, or the Arcipelago Septentrional-thenorthern archipelago.
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Even when the Tramontana came, although it was cool, its coolness was not unpleasant, the adjacent hill sheltering the islets from its immediate influence.