Crossword clues for tramontane
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, a. [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.
Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane.
Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.
Wiktionary
a. 1 From the far side of the mountains (especially from North of the Alps) 2 foreign 3 a classical name for the north wind n. One living beyond the mountains; a foreigner; a stranger.
WordNet
adj. on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds" [syn: transmontane] [ant: cismontane]
being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences"
n. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontana]
Wikipedia
Tramontane is a classical name for a northern wind. The exact form of the name and precise direction varies from country to country. The word came to English from Italian tramontana, which developed from Latin trānsmontānus (trāns- + montānus), "beyond/across the mountains", referring to the Alps in the North of Italy. The word has other non-wind-related senses: it can refer to anything that comes from, or anyone who lives on, the other side of mountains, or even more generally, anything seen as foreign, strange, or even barbarous.
Tramontane is a 2016 Lebanese drama film directed by Vatche Boulghourjian. It premiered in the International Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Rail d'Or Audience Award.
Usage examples of "tramontane".
When I found myself in the streets, I scarcely could believe that I was in Italy, for everything had a tramontane appearance.
But, scenting strangeness such as they had never scented before, these lately-wolves decided among themselves that this tramontane was fair game.
That you did not succeed in your rape must be because Hopea-Lapuo, our God-in-the-Earth who rules us all, employed this tramontane wretch to prevent your sacriligious act!
Greenland- Greenland should always be the scene of the tramontane negociation.
There had been a tramontane wind for several days, which at first had swept the sky clean with its raw, cold breath, but now it had turned sweet and mild, and with the sun like your warm hand on my shoulder, I felt the optimism and yearnings of springtime turning over in me.
We have a laranzu come with us from Tramontane, but he has had no experience with sentry-birds, and these are known to you, damisela.
It is a long harbour with a dog-leg in it and a precious narrow mouth protected by a broad mole and two batteries, one on each side, and another of 24-pounders high up on Bear: a tricky piece of navigation, to take a ship in or out with their infernal tramontane blowing right across the narrow mouth, but an excellent sheltered harbour inside with deep water up to the quays.
He studied the angle of the dog-vane, called for an azimuth-compass to take the bearings of the wake and of Cape Mola, gazed long at the sky, the familiar clear tramontane sky with high white clouds moving in a steady procession toward Africa, and methodically began to pack on sail, causing the log to be heaved every five minutes.
It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever.
Though thrilled to be on the trail again, Nabokov had to contend with the chill tramontane wind that seemed to blow whenever the sun shone.
Italian sun infected with disease those tramontane bodies which had already suffered the vicissitudes of intemperance and famine.
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.
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.
When I found myself in the streets, I scarcely could believe that I was in Italy, for everything had a tramontane appearance.
And the blessed realisation that the dawn was bringing its usual slackening of the tramontane - and that the sail down to leeward was the lively.