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Tramontana   /trɑmoʊntˈænə/   Listen
Tramontana

noun
1.
A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean.  Synonym: tramontane.





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"Tramontana" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cine. Contini delli vltimi Tartari. Alcune Terre Incognite. Contini Settentrionali della Rosia.] Riuoltasi l'Oceano da leuante verso la regione delle Cine, et va alla volta di Tramontana, et passata finalmente la detta regione, se ne giunge a Gogi et Magogi, cio e alli confini de gli Vltimi Tartari, et di quiui ad Alcune Terre che sono Incognite: Et correndo sempre per Ponente, passa sopra li confini Settentrionali della Rossia, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation v. 4 • Richard Hakluyt
... was healthy. The tramontana visited it then as now, fever, too, and sudden death. To emperors it was fatal. Since Caesar a malaria had battened on them all. Nerva escaped, but only through abdication. The mantle that fell from Domitian's ...
— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus


Words linked to "Tramontana" :   north wind, boreas, norther, northerly


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