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tramontane

DEFINITIONS OF: tramontane

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adj on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)

“tramontane winds”
Synonyms:
transmontane
transalpine, ultramontane
on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
Antonyms:
cismontane
on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains
cisalpine, ultramontane
on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps
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adj being or coming from another country

“tramontane influences”
Synonyms
foreign, strange
relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

n a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

Synonyms:
tramontana
Type of:
boreas, north wind, norther, northerly
a wind that blows from the north
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