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A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean
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tramontana
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A dry, cold north wind in Italy and adjacent Mediterranean areas.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane ]
Wikipedia
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Tramontana , Tramuntana , or Tramontane may refer to: Tramontane , a northern wind ( Tramuntana in Catalan and '' Tramontana'' in Italian) " Tramontane ", an instrumental by the rock group Foreigner , from their album " Double Vision ". Served as the "B" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tramontana \Tra`mon*ta"na\, n. [It. See Tramontane .] (Meteor.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.
Usage examples of tramontana.
There is a MacAran laranzu in Tramontana - it is to him and his fellow workers that we mean these birds to go, in the end.
Ruyven was at Tramontana, so she had heard, and perhaps he was the laranzu for whose hands these birds were destined.
It had been the workers at Tramontana, he remembered, who devised the chemicals for fire-fighting, where they could be found in the deep caves under the Hellers, refining them, devising new ways to use them, all with the matrix arts.
They could strafe Tramontana with psychic lightnings, till the workers in the Tower were dead or mindless.
Perhaps you could eliminate the time it would take my men to travel to the lake of Hali and fetch her, if you sent to Tramontana Tower with a message through the relays that she should set forth at once.