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tra⋅mon⋅ta⋅na

   [trah-muhn-tah-nuh, -tan-uh; It. trah-mawn-tah-nah]
–noun, plural -nas, Italian. -ne  [-ne] .
1. a cold wind from the north or northeast that blows in the western Mediterranean.
2. any north wind issuing from a mountainous region.
Origin:
1605–15; < It, n. use of fem. of tramontano tramontane
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tramontana

noun
a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane] 

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Tramontana

Tra`mon*ta"na\, n. [It. See Tramontane.] (Meteor.) A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

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