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Meanings of tramontane in English

Catalan
tramuntà

On or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)

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      tramuntà
      Catalan
      tramuntana
      Spanish
      tramontana

      A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean.

            tramuntana
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            Examples for "transmontane"
            Examples for "transmontane"
            1
            But at that time they inhabited only a small portion of the country and had not obtained any transmontane sovereignty.
            Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
            2
            These transmontane counties of Virginia were, in their political activity during our period, rather to be reckoned with the west than with the south.
            Rise of the New West, 1819-1829

            Tramontane.

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                    Usage of tramontane in English
                    1
                    You have brought with you tramontane creatures whose presence is an affront to the unsullied Earth.
                    Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
                    2
                    You will surrender the tramontane conveyances to us.
                    Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
                    3
                    Nay, even countries as presumptuously disdainful of tramontane literature as Italy took an interest in this memorable undertaking.
                    Biographical Essays
                    4
                    When I found myself in the streets, I scarcely could believe that I was in Italy, for everything had a tramontane appearance.
                    The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
                    5
                    Colonel Robertson, Captain Clonder, Captain Brooke, Mr. Haward, Mr. Beverley, Dr. Robinson, Mr. Fontaine, Mr. Todd, Mr. Mason,-allof the Tramontane Order.
                    Audrey
                    6
                    "What the hell is a tramontane?"
                    Beyond The Frontier: Guardian
                    7
                    "Yes, Paganel, it is the north wind-a wind which causes many a crime in the Pampas, as the TRAMONTANE does in the Campagna of Rome."
                    In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
                    Translations for tramontane
                    Spanish
                    tramontana
                    Tramontane through the time